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18 février 2015
- doi: 10.4000/mefrm.2408
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Antoni Grabowski, « Eunuch between economy and philology. The case of carzimasium », Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Moyen Âge, ID : 10.4000/mefrm.2408
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This paper examines the word carzimasium found in Liudprand of Cremona’s Antapodosis. It is introduced as a Greek name for a certain type of a eunuch. For various historians of economy carzimasium was interpreted as denoting the geographic origin of the slaves, but look at the philological works shows that there is another explanation. I propose that carzimasium is a word coming Semitic languages and thus could be seen as an argument against the thesis of Michael Toch, who argues that Jews did not participate in the slave trade in the Middle Ages.