Erin Thomas Dailey

(Fragment of a Late Roman slave sale contract (p.mich.inv.4907), University of Michigan) By James R. Burns, with thanks to Erin Thomas Dailey, Sheida Heydarishovir, Sofia...

By James R. Burns The DoSSE project team is working on a sourcebook for late antique slavery, featuring Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Persian...

They were old pious and rich— tweed jackets and bowler hats— They bore a guilt They cringed at some words They translated the ancient world...

(Relief showing Roman comic theatre masks. © The Trustees of the British Museum.) By James R. Burns The DoSSE project team is working on a...

By James R. Burns This blog post contains some brief thoughts on how late antique literary sources show female slave owners exploiting the bodies of...

A guest post by Molly Dumbrell. Find out how enslaved girls were exploited in Late Antiquity; what their domestic burden was; and if manumission really...

A guest post by Eniko Toth Editorial note: Eniko Toth has just finished her third-year in Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln. She originally...

Guest post by Lauren Pugsley Editorial note: Lauren Pugsley has just finished her third-year in Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln. She originally drafted...

Guest post by Ellie Sadler Editorial note: Ellie Sadler has just finished her third-year in Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln. She originally drafted...

Guest post by Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln) In Spring 2025, Jamie Wood (https://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/jwood) ran Slavery in Late Antiquity, a new final-year undergraduate module on...