Erin Thomas Dailey

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...

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...

Apply here: https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11322/research-associate-domestic-slavery-in-late-antiquity–2-positions-available.html Vacancy terms: Full-time, fixed term contract for 15 months, or until 30 September 2026, whichever sooner. Salary details: Grade 7 – £39,105...

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,...

(James C. Scott, 1936–2024. Photo credit: Yale.) By James R. Burns Even if one accepts that the serf, the slave, and the untouchable will have...

By Justin Pigott This month some of the DoSSE team made the short trip north to the International Medieval Congress in Leeds. As a historian...

By James R. Burns At this year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies at West Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Sheida, Seth, and I gave our papers...

On Monday 15th April 2024, our Principal Investigator, Erin Thomas Dailey, will be giving the Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture, at the Bonn Center for...