Welcome
Welcome to the Networks of slaveholding and enslavement the Mediterranean World (ca. 1348–1528) online database, an ongoing project started in 2018 by the late medieval and early modern historian Steven Teasdale.
To begin you can view the collection of contracts in the Collections page. You can also use the search bar above of search the database.
This online database is a companion to my thesis titled Networks of slaveholding and enslavement in the Genoese Mediterranean 1348–1528. It maps the social networks of thousands of slaveholders and enslaved persons attested in Genoese notarial contracts.
As of January 2024 this database has encoded the following entities.
- 10100 persons
- 1926 contracts
- 16 institutions
As of January 2024 this database has encoded the following relationships.
- 3972 parental relationships
- 2264 marriage relationships
- 8981 contractual relationships
- 254 institutional relationships