Piracy and captivity in the Mediterranean, 1550-1810 / edited by Mario Klarer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klarer, Mario, 1962- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge research in early modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pirates--Mediterranean Region--History.

Pirates.

Captivity--Mediterranean Region--History.

Captivity.

Captivity narratives--Mediterranean Region.

Captivity narratives.

Piracy--Mediterranean Region--History.

Piracy.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean exlores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Divided into four parts and offering a variety of both national and cultural vantage points, Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean addresses both the background from which captivity narratives were born and the narratives themselves. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modem slavery and piracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Trading identities: Balthasar Sturmer's Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the making of the European Barbary captivity narrative / Mario Klarer

Unkind dealings: English captivity narratives, commercial transformation, and the economy of unfree labor in the early modern period / Daniel Vitkus

Ambivalences of recognition: the position of the Barbary corsairs in early modern international law and international politics / Walter Rech

"Free, unfree, captive, slave": António de Saldanha, a Late sixteenth-century captive in Marrakesh / Peter Mark

"Renegades": converts to Islam in American Barbary captivity narratives of the 1790s / Anna Diamantouli

Identity crises of homecomers from the Barbary coast / Robert Spindler

"Arab speculators": states and ransom slavery in the Western Sahara / Christine E. Sears

Michael Heberer: a prisoner in the Ottoman Navy / Robert Rebitsch

Piracy, diplomacy, and cultural circulations in the Mediterranean / Khalid Bekkaoui

Confraternity models in the "redemption of slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Bruges (Brugge) and the Scuola della Santissima Trinità of Venice / Andrea Pelizza

Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: clashing portraits of a Corsair-King / Diana de Armas Wilson

A huguenot captive in Uthman Dey's court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and its author / Gillian Weiss

Two Arabic accounts of captivity in Malta: texts and contexts / Nabil Matar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138640276

1138640271

OCLC:

1245926082

Publisher Number:

99996797549

40028571252