Official Project Publications
As principal outputs, DoSSE Project is producing a co-authored academic monograph on Slavery, Sex, and Society in Late Antiquity, as well as a sourcebook on slaveholding practices in domestic spaces (AD 250-850). These books are planned for 2027.
All official project publications are available Open Access. See links below.
Published
Articles
Burns, James R., “Slaves” and “Slave Owners” or “Enslaved People” and “Enslavers”?’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 7th series, 2 (2024), pp. 371–388 (click here for OA download)
Burns, James R., ‘The Bandit, the Holy Man, and the Slave in the Early Medieval West’, Journal of Late Antiquity, 17.2 (2024), pp. 395-421. (click here for OA download)
Stadel, Seth M. ‘The Legal Constructions of Christian Slavery in Fars at the End of Late Antiquity’, Journal of Late Antiquity, 18.2 (2025), pp. 401-422. (click here for OA download)
Forthcoming
Books
Dailey, E. T., Tali Artman Partock, Justin Pigott, Sofia Puchkova, Daniel Alford, Sheida Heydarishovir, and James R. Burns, with Seth Stadel, Household Slavery and Bodily Vulnerability in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies: Tensions within Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Families
Dailey, E. T., Tali Artman Partock, Seth Stadel, Justin Pigott, Sofia Puchkova, Daniel Alford, Sheida Heydarishovir, and James R. Burns, eds, Sex and Slavery in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: A Sourcebook
Stadel, Seth M., Legislating Bondage under Islamic Rule Christian Slavery in the Early Medieval East Syriac Legal Tradition (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press)
Wood, Jamie, and Seth M. Stadel, eds, Domestic Slavery in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (special issue of Medieval People, 41 (2026)
Articles
Alford, Daniel, ‘The Council of Šahapivan: The Wedding, Legal Power, Rebellion, and the Church in Fifth Century CE Armenia’
Dailey, E. T., ‘Caesarius of Arles, Sexual Morality, and Household Slaves: The Vulnerability of Proximity’, Medieval People, 41 (2026)
Dailey, E.T., ‘Clerical Authorities, Roman Law, and Hagar’s Son: Paternal Non-Recognition and the Children of Free Men and Slave Women in the Late Roman and Early Medieval World’
Dailey, E.T., ‘Eunuchs for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven: Self-Castration, the Early Church, and the Gospel of Matthew’
Dailey, E. T., ‘The Sexual Vulnerability of Non-Adult Slaves in the Late Roman West, AD 300–550’, in Children at Work in the Late Ancient World, ed. by Christian Laes (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2026)
Dailey, E.T, and Justin Pigott, ‘Ascetics, Slaves, and Necessity in Late Antiquity: Renouncing All Wealth, But for a Single Slave’
Heydarishovir, Sheida, ‘Sexual Exploitation and Social Hierarchies in the Qābūsnāma: A Study of Medieval Persian Society’, Medieval People (2026)
Pigott, Justin, ‘In the Houses of the Holy: Visions of Domestic Slavery in Heaven’
Puchkova, Sofia, ‘From a Noblewoman to a Slave: Exploring Genre Transformation, Gender, and Slavery in the Martyrdom of Potamiaina‘
