Operation ATALANTA to counter piracy in the western Indian Ocean
Operation ATALANTA to counter piracy in the western Indian Ocean
The Padrón Real of Diego Ribero: the cartography of the known world after the expedition of Magellan and Elcano
Missing Migrants Project tracks incidents involving migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers
The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology
Cathedral and monastic schools in the middle of 11th century
The dawn of globalization. video-lesson by Ugo Fabietti, one of the greatest Italian anthropologists
In the Middle Ages, new forms of exploitation slowly replaced slavery, such as serfdom, whose term (lat.servus, slave) designates the condition of dependence of a farmer who binds him to the land on which he resides and to a master. This condition concerns men or women who do not enjoy personal liberties, they belonged to a gentleman and were bound to the gleba, or to the land they cultivated (peasants). Its origin goes back to the last centuries of the Roman Empire, when a class of farmers was created, still legally free.
Bologna was the first city in the world to abolish slavery and free the serfs through the enactment of the “Liber Paradisus”.
Slave trips to the East.
The Atlantic passage.