Slavery on the medieval Silk Road
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was a grim but omnipresent reality across the Silk Road during the Middle Ages. Speaking to Emily Briffitt. Claire Taylor unpacks the complex networks of enslavement that span from Ireland to China. Revealing how and why human lives were traded alongside silks and spices. Could you just explain what we mean when we're talking about
The silk right at this time. Yeah, if we're thinking about the silk roads and what they are. In ancient times we think about the silk roads as the routes kind of through central Asia, through to China. By the time we get to the Middle Ages, we're aware of many more connections. So historians these days think in terms of world structures. world history and actually we can find connections from the Atlantic Ocean right through to the Pacific. So from Ireland right through to Korea and Japan. We tend to think about salt roads is over land routes, but particularly when we're thinking about the movement of goods and people, we're also thinking about sea routes as well. And we also think about interconnectedness, so north south routes as well as east west routes that connected with the salt roads in the Middle Ages.
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