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...
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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...
DoSSE project members will be presenting at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, this coming July. Here, we set out what we will be presenting...
Update (21/5/2025): We have filled our spare paper slot – Broderick Haldane-Unwin (University of Oxford) will be presenting on ‘Captivity and Credit: Gregory the Great...
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Hosted by the DoSSE project, Niall Ó Súilleabháin (Université de Poitiers) will be giving a public lecture at the University of Leicester on the subject...
It is with great pleasure that we announce the visit of Andriy Danylenko to the University of Leicester, and his Public Lecture on the subject of: The...
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By James R. Burns DID YOU KNOW that Theodoric the Great, ruler of the Ostrogoths (c. 475-526), was the son of two slaves? Well, he...
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By James R. Burns (Limoges, France, the home of Pelagia.) ‘Since the pressures of the world weighed heavily on a woman, not least on a...
By James R. Burns Last week, I went to the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum. It situated slavery in wide-ranging Eurasian commercial networks,...
