Hannah Barker

Books

• That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Articles

• Co-authored with Chen Chen. "Pandemic Outbreaks and the Language of Violence: Discussing the Origins of the Black Death and COVID-19.” CHEST 162, no. 1 (July 2022): 196-201.
• “The Risk of Birth: Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa.” Journal of Global Slavery 6, no. 2 (2021): 1-31.
• "Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain Embargoes and the Early Transmission of the Black Death in the Black Sea, 1346-1347," Speculum 96, no. 1 (2021): 97-126.
• "Purchasing a Slave in Fourteenth-Century Cairo: Ibn al-Akfānī’s Book of Observation and Inspection in the Examination of Slaves," Mamluk Studies Review 19 (2016): 1-24.
• "Reconnecting with the Homeland: Black Sea Slaves in Mamluk Biographical Dictionaries," Medieval Prosopography 30 (2015): 87-104.

Book Chapters

• “Boys Like Gold Coins: The Trade in Mamluks for the Mamluk Sultanate.” In Exchange in the Mamluk Sultanate: Economic and Cultural, ed. Marlis J. Saleh, 1-16. Peeters: Louvain, 2023.

• "Slavery in the Black Sea Region.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History, ed. Damian Pargas and Juliane Schiel, 159-178. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. [Open Access]

• “The Trade in Slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe.” In The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500 - AD 1420, ed. Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley Engerman, and David Richardson, 100-122. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

• "What Caused the Fourteenth-Century Tatar-Circassian Shift?" In Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c. 900-1900: Forms of Unfreedom at the Intersection between Christianity and Islam, ed. Felicia Roşu, 339-363. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

• "Christianities in Conflict: The Black Sea as a Genoese Slaving Zone in the Later Middle Ages," in Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, ed. Jeff Fynn-Paul and Damian Alan Pargas (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 50-69.