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Ambattar: Unfreedom, mobility, and women’s reproductive labor in the North Atlantic world, 750-1050

Bell, Jacob

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Title
Ambattar: Unfreedom, mobility, and women’s reproductive labor in the North Atlantic world, 750-1050
Author(s)
Bell, Jacob
Issue Date
2023-07-12
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Symes, Carol L
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Symes, Carol L
Committee Member(s)
  • Trilling, Renée R
  • Koslofsky, Craig M
  • Mikhailova, Yulia
  • Höfig , Verena
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • slavery
  • unfreedom
  • Global Middle Ages
  • medieval globe
  • Old Norse
  • Iceland
Abstract
This dissertation charts the mobility of mostly nameless young women and girls trafficked into the Norse settlements in Iceland from Eastern Europe, North America, and Central Asia. It contends that the forced migration and reproductive labor of these women constitutes an essential aspect of the medieval world’s increasing globalization – although their descendants would ultimately obscure their individual and collective roles when writing the nation- and state-building narratives of later centuries.
Graduation Semester
2023-08
Type of Resource
Thesis
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2023 Jacob Bell

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