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ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by @uniofleicester www.dosseproject.com

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are excited to announce our Annual Lecture 2026! Prof. Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) "An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed": The Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE) Wednesday, 21 October, 3:30 PM-5 PM (further details and links to come) #skyhistorians
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Gender & History Annual Lecture 2026
Professor Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) will speak on the Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 02/10/2026
The BCDSS invites applications for Heinz Heinen Fellowships 2027/2028, open to doctoral, postdoctoral and senior scholars and Alternative Knowledge Producers. Proposals on the period before 1900. Deadline: 10 January 2027. buff.ly/q7D1TvA @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de
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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
✨ Call for papers! 👉 Language and Labour in the Ancient World 📅 📍 15–16 April 2027 ⏰ Submit by Saturday 31st October 2026 🔗 Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our thanks to everyone who has supported and shared the work of the project. We feel the project is testimony to the benefits of collaborative scholarship, made possible through valuing the diverse expertise & perspective of each team member.
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(thread carries on here) bsky.app/profile/doss...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
James' article on slaves and slavers as bandits in the early medieval West (in the Journal of Late Antiquity)
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
James is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, where he'll be coordinating a module on ancient humour. He submitted his thesis earlier this month, & he has several forthcoming publications on Merovingian slavery profile.hcommons.org/members/jame...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sofia Puchkova is now a Gerda Henkel scholar, based at the University of Durham, with a project entitled '"Movable Archives"and "Devotional Notebooks": Exploring East-Syrian History Through Readers’ Interactions with Manuscripts (1100–1900)'
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seth is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he is working on translations of several key Syriac sources, plus a book-length study of slavery in the East Syriac legal tradition
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tali has been appointed Director of Jewish Studies at Leo Baeck College lbc.ac.uk/member/dr-ta...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We'd also like to share exciting news about our project members and what they are moving on (or have already moved on) to do
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is a lot more, from all team members, still in the pipeline. See the website for a full list of current & forthcoming publications. www.dosseproject.com/outputs/
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Publications & Outputs – DoSSE Project
As principal outputs, DoSSE Project is producing a co-authored academic monograph on Slavery, Sex, and Society in Late Antiquity, as well as a sourcebook on slaveholding practices in domestic spaces (AD 250-850). These books are planned for 2027.
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
James' article, co-authored with Jamie Wood, Hope Williard, Máirín MacCarron, and Julia Hillner, on namelessness in late antique & early medieval texts (in Medieval People), which includes a discussion of anonymous and notorious of domestic slaves Link: scholarworks.wmich.edu/medpros/vol4...
The introductory page to Jamie Wood, Hope Williard, Máirín MacCarron, Julia Hillner, and James Burns, 'Problems and Possibilities of Namelessness in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages', Medieval People, 40.1 (2026)
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seth's article on "Christian slavery" among the Syriac-speaking communities of Fars, and its debts to the Islamic and Sasanian legal traditions (in the Journal of Late Antiquity) Link: muse.jhu.edu/article/969358
The abstract to Seth M. Stadel, ‘The Legal Constructions of Christian Slavery in Fars at the End of Late Antiquity’, Journal of Late Antiquity, 18.2 (2025),
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Erin and Justin's article on how late antique Christian ascetics often retained one slave when they renounced the rest of their property (in Early Medieval Europe) Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We'll be preparing our two main outputs for publication: a book on household slavery & sexual exploitation in Late Antiquity, and an accompanying sourcebook, both featuring Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac & Zoroastrian sources. Our existing publications (all OA) give a taste of what's to come:
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We'll continue to use BlueSky to share updates on research and publications about late antique slavery, from team members and beyond
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, we had our last official meeting as a project. We are proud of what we've achieved, sad that's formally over, and excited about what's still to come. The project may have reached the end of its funding timeline, but our team is carrying on as a research network.
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Jesse Keskiaho @jkeskiah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just got my hands on this fine looking volume, including my piece on a Carolingian copy of the first eight books of De civitate carrying annotations probably made in or near Arles in the early sixth century, possibly in the entourage of bishop Caesarius doi.org/10.30965/978...
Cover of the volume Augustine's De civitate Dei. Text, Context and Reception, ed. by Anthony Dupont, Marina Giani and Gert Partoens, showing a woodcut print depicting Aurelius Augustinus as a late medieval scholar
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What an astonishing find! According to his vita, Caesarius healed Parthenius' favourite slave, who Parthenius then put in charge of his home. Can't wait to read Jesse's study on the annotations to the City of God and learn more.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
6th Oct. 2026, 17:00 GMT = 1PM EDT @tracconference.bsky.social Webinar Lecture: Daniel Connelly 'The Sound of Slave Labour: utilising ‘auditory peopling’ to analyse Marcus Aurelius’ depiction of ideal mastery at Villa Magna' www.ticketsource.com/theoretical-... @traj-journal.bsky.social
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Part three now up on the DoSSE blog: 'Enslaved People in the Elite Home, III: The Stibadium and Dining Room' Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
Scene from the Seuso plate, showing masters sitting on a stibadium being served by slaves carrying dishes
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Enslaved People in the Elite Home, II: Ostia and Transitional Space" Read part two of Hannah Ashton's series on how Late Roman art depicted enslaved people, within the very spaces where they worked, on the DoSSE blog Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
Fragment of a curtain, 4th–6th century CE, showing a domestic slave/servant with a key and carrying a vessel, within a doorway. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hannah has just finished her degree in Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln. She drafted her blog posts for a module on 'Slavery in Late Antiquity'. Find out more here: bsky.app/profile/doss...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW on the DoSSE blog: 'Enslaved People in the Elite Home, I: The Cubiculum' This is part one of a three part guest series by Hannah Ashton, looking at the interaction between domestic space, art, & slavery in the Late Roman world. Link: www.dosseproject.com/enslaved-peo...
The Projecta Casket: a mistress sitting down is attended to by a female slave and servant
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 18/09/2026
The Namelessness in History workshop wrapped up at BCDSS: two days of studying people left unnamed by history, from ancient epigraphy to LLMs. Part of "The Nameless in History," funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de. Thanks to all who took part. @unibonn.bsky.social
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Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lots of discussion of ‘popular’ history and its pitfalls in context of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. Just come across this excellent example - rather belatedly to my shame - of professional historians doing it brilliantly. 1/ www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400 | Christian Raffensperger, Erin
This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’ – individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zarmina drafted these posts for a third-year Special Subject on 'Slavery in Late Antiquity'. Find out more from Jamie's post from last year: bsky.app/profile/doss...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Part III: 'The Ideology of Slavery Within the Early Church' www.dosseproject.com/spiritualizi... The DoSSE project is proud to support and publish excellent student work on late antique slavery
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW on the DoSSE blog: parts II & III of Zarmina's guest series on 'Spiritualising Slavery in Early Christianity' Part II: 'Theological Justifications for Slavery in the Writings of Augustine' www.dosseproject.com/spiritualizi...
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Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are you a historian who works on histories of work, trade, or industry? Do you want to reach a wider public audience? If so we want your pitches for our December issue! As medieval editor I am always happy to work with any medievalist on their articles! Submit: www.epoch-magazine.com/submit
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Katharina Mersch @katha-m.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OPEN ACCESS! Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Cersovsky, Eva-Maria; Exarchos, Julia. Stuttgart 2026 (Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Beihefte, 265). biblioscout.net/de/book/10.2...
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Gender, Work, and Service in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
By focusing on service as an important socio-historical reality of labour, this volume presents new research on the complex relations between gender a...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The improvement in our understanding of how central slave-trading was to early eastern European states has been dramatic over the past few years - a great example of how historical (& archaeological) research moves the field forwards.
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Zarmina drafted these posts for a third-year Special Subject on 'Slavery in Late Antiquity'. Find out more from Jamie's post from last year: bsky.app/profile/doss...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on the DoSSE blog: 'Spiritualising Slavery in Early Christianity, I: Slavery as a Spiritual Journey' This is the first of three guest posts by Zarmina Hussain-Gambles, a student who has just finished her studies at the University of Lincoln. Link: www.dosseproject.com/spiritualizi...
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We all need to start writing emails with the same attitude Gregory the Great had when writing letters. Whenever someone fails to answer my email I will henceforth begin my message with "Greetings, Your Negligence".
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Tony Burke @tonyburke.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Seven (?) years in the making, submitted to my editors yesterday. 624 pages, covering almost 400 texts but 100 or so pages over my page limit. Happy to leave this in the hands of the editors for a while and move on to something else (or just get more sleep). My thanks to all who helped along the way
Draft of opening page to Introduction to Christian Apocrypha by Tony Burke
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Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Job! Three Research Group Leader positions at the Bonn Dependency cluster, starting in January 2027, on a fixed-term contract until 31 December 2032. Application deadline is 15 September 2026.
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Three remarkable Merovingian royal women, reconstructed from the costumes they were buried in, probably Wisigarde (510-538/40), Arnegunde (515-580) and Balthild (c.633-680). I love their presence; wish they'd been drawn older. By F Vincent in P Perin & E Wamers, Königinnen der Merowinger (2013)
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This looks like a great new book on household dependency - and it features friend-of-the-project Niall Ó Súilleabháin on "The Monastic Familia in Northern France as a Coercive Labour Regime, c. 900–c. 1100 AD"
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 21/08/2026
📚️ Volume 32 in the DSS series is out now! Congratulations to Stephan Conermann, Ulbe Bosma and Gijs Kessler on their new publication. buff.ly/mAXFnVX @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Hannah S-R @hannahsrwriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excited to announct a (slightly belated) call for papers for @imc-leeds.bsky.social! @vikkisands.bsky.social and I look forward to hearing your abstracts for our session on Communities and Outsiders! Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2026. #medievalsky #imc2027 #cfp
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
August 18 is the feast day of Saint Helena, former stabularia (often an enslaved stablekeeper) & mother of Constantine. She is the patron saint of archaeologists for sending a brigade to excavate the True Cross but as @writinghelena.bsky.social shows: she was much more global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A fresco from Trier, Germany, possibly depicting Helena, c. 310
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Still time for this, so keep sending submissions in. Have some brilliant submissions for 1 panel already but would be interested in a second!
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Keep submitting and circulating! Trying to get a broad chronological sweep with this, so please reshare into different historical groups covering 400 - 1100 CE
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Samuel Rowe @samdrowe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Re-circulating this with 2 weeks to go; don't hesitate to send me a proposal (at samueldavid.rowe@studenti.unipd.it) as we still need submissions! #medievalsky #IMC2027
Call for papers for the IMC session "Redefining early medieval gentes"; proposals should be sent to samueldavid.rowe@studenti.unipd.it
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In Slaving States, archaeologists Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz offer a pathbreaking new perspective on the ways ancient societies were shaped and transformed by slave trading. Publishing August 25 (20 October UK/EU pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Slaving States: From West Africa to the Ancient Mediterranean by Elizabeth Fentress and Adam Rabinowitz
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