Sisto Pinelli was a Genoese merchant active during the first half of the fifteenth century. He was born Sisto Dentuto and changed his surname after entering into the Pinelli albergo.
Skýros is an island in the Aegean Sea. After the Fourth Crusade of 1202–1204, the island became part of the domain of Geremia Ghisi. The Byzantines retook it in 1277. After the Fall of Constantinople, Venetians again ruled the island until 1538, when it passed to the Ottoman Empire.
This collection explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery.
The region of Slavonia in the late Middle Ages approximately covers the area of the Zagreb diocese, the region east of Croatia, west of Hungary, and north of Bosnia.
