Captives And Corsairs
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Captives And Corsairs
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Author : Gillian Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-11
Captives And Corsairs written by Gillian Weiss and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-11 with History categories.
French response to the capture and enslavement of French citizens and subjects by Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean.
Corsairs And Captives
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Author : Adam Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2024-11-30
Corsairs And Captives written by Adam Nichols and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their home ports and auctioning them off to the highest bidder. The conflict between these Barbary corsairs and Europe was military, but not just that; religious, but not just that; social and economic, but not just that either. Above all, it was a human conflict, with all the confusion, blurred lines, and inherent messiness of such things, and the narratives it generated were more complicated than simple swashbuckling pirate tales. Corsairs & Captives presents a collection of these narratives, all based directly on primary-source documents, a number of which are translated into English for the first time. They include biographies of four renegade corsair captains (Europeans who converted to Islam and became corsairs), descriptions of sea battles by those who were there, accounts of ransomed captives, the report of a French Trinitarian friar who led a ransoming expedition to Algiers, even the transcript of a trial held by the Canary Islands chapter of the (in)famous Spanish Inquisition. These narratives bring to life a world much rougher than our own but no less complicated, in which people with the ordinary human fears and aspirations we are familiar with today struggled to endure. It is not the world most people expect when they think of Barbary corsairs. It is more interesting than that.
Pirates Of Barbary
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Author : Adrian Tinniswood
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-31
Pirates Of Barbary written by Adrian Tinniswood and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with History categories.
From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian and Muslim seafarers met in bustling ports to swap religions, to battle and to trade goods and sales - raiding as far as Ireland and Iceland in search of their human currency.Studying the origins of these men, their culture and practices, Adrian Tinniswood expertly recreates the twilight world of the corsairs and uncovers a truly remarkable clash of civilisations Drawing on a wealth of material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as recent Islamic accounts, Pirates of Barbary provides a new perspectives of the corsairs and a fascinating insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain and so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of mankind.
Corsairs Captives Converts In Early Modernity
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Author : Robert Spindler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12
Corsairs Captives Converts In Early Modernity written by Robert Spindler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12 with categories.
Northern Captives
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Author : Karl Smári Hreinsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Northern Captives written by Karl Smári Hreinsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Captives And Corsairs
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Author : Gillian Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-11
Captives And Corsairs written by Gillian Weiss and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-11 with History categories.
Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images produced by contemporaries, the book fundamentally revises our picture of France's emergence as a nation and a colonial power, presenting the Mediterranean as an essential vantage point for studying the rise of France. It reveals how efforts to liberate slaves from North Africa shaped France's perceptions of the Muslim world and of their own "Frenchness". From around 1550 to 1830, freeing these captives evolved from an expression of Christian charity to a method of state building and, eventually, to a rationale for imperial expansion. Captives and Corsairs thus advances new arguments about the fluid nature of slavery and firmly links captive redemption to state formation—and in turn to the still vital ideology of liberatory conquest.
Spanish Captives In North Africa In The Early Modern Age
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Author : Ellen G. Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1983
Spanish Captives In North Africa In The Early Modern Age written by Ellen G. Friedman and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
Spain in the sixteenth century was the dominant European power. Yet, along the coasts, Spanish farmers and fishermen lived in constant fear, the victims of regular kidnapping raids by North African corsairs. In this detailed study, Ellen G. Friedman examines this undeclared state of siege that would continue for two hundred years and perpetuate the centuries-old struggle of Christianity and Islam. Drawing on original archival sources, anecdotal materials, and computer analysis, she vividly documents the North African dependence on Spanish hostages, the experiences of Christian captives, and the officially-sanctioned efforts to free them. The result is a fresh perspective on Spain in its Golden Age, and a seminal study of European slaves in Africa.
Lords Of The Sea
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Author : Alan G. Jamieson
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-02-15
Lords Of The Sea written by Alan G. Jamieson and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-15 with History categories.
The escalation of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led commentators to call the area the new Barbary, but the Somali pirates cannot compare to the three hundred years of terror supplied by the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean and beyond. From 1500 to 1800, Muslim pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa captured and enslaved more than a million Christians. Lords of the Sea relates the history of these pirates, examining their dramatic impact as the maritime vanguard of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1500s through their breaking from Ottoman control in the early seventeenth century. Alan Jamieson explores how the corsairs rose to the apogee of their powers during this period, extending their activities from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and venturing as far as England, Ireland, and Iceland. Serving as a vital component of the main Ottoman fleet, the Barbary pirates also conducted independent raids of Christian ships and territory. While their activities declined after 1700, Jamieson reveals that it was only in the early nineteenth century that Europe and the United States finally curtailed the Barbary menace, a fight that culminated in the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. A welcome addition to military history, Lords of the Sea is an engrossing tale of exploration, slavery, and conquest.
Captives Of The Corsairs
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Author : Robert Elwood Burns
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-10-16
Captives Of The Corsairs written by Robert Elwood Burns and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-16 with categories.
In the summer of 1505, Baltasar and his wife and business partner, Sheba of Tigre, are living settled and productive lives in a resurgent post-war Naples. It all comes to an abrupt end with an inexplicable act of betrayal leading to their abduction by Barbary pirates. They embark on a harrowing new life of adaptation and survival, first as slaves, and then renegades and apostates in the great North African city of Tunis, serving the interests of the pirate community and their financial backers. They begin to see larger forces at work behind their abduction when their old Turkish spymaster helps them flee through the Libyan Desert to the troubled Egyptian city of Alexandria. From there it is but a short jump to Cyprus, where the network of great power interests in which they are unknowingly enmeshed finally becomes apparent. Theirs is a rich cultural and religious journey-from the dar al-Harb of Christian modernity through the dar al-Islam of Muslim North Africa. It is also an intensely personal journey for Baltasar and Sheba, from friendship to love, and finally into the larger and more challenging reality of parenthood and family.
The Travels Of Reverend Lafur Egilsson
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Author : Ólafur Egilsson
language : en
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
Release Date : 2018-03-11
The Travels Of Reverend Lafur Egilsson written by Ólafur Egilsson and has been published by Catholic University of America Press + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-11 with History categories.
A seventeenth-century minister tells his story of abduction by pirates, and a solo journey from Algiers to Copenhagen, in this remarkable historical text. In summer 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens and abducting almost four hundred people to sell into slavery in Algiers. Among those taken was Lutheran minister Olafur Egilsson. Reverend Olafur—born in the same year as William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei—wrote The Travels to chronicle his experiences both as a captive and as a traveler across Europe as he journeyed alone from Algiers to Copenhagen in an attempt to raise funds to ransom the Icelandic captives that remained behind. He was a keen observer, and the narrative is filled with a wealth of detail―social, political, economic, religious―about both the Maghreb and Europe. It is also a moving story on the human level: We witness a man enduring great personal tragedy and struggling to reconcile such calamity with his understanding of God. The Travels is the first-ever English translation of the Icelandic text. Until now, the corsair raid on Iceland has remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. To give a clearer sense of the extraordinary events connected with that raid, this edition of The Travels includes not only Reverend Olafur’s first-person narrative but also a collection of contemporary letters describing both the events of the raid itself and the conditions under which the enslaved Icelanders lived. Also included are appendices containing background information on the cities of Algiers and Salé in the seventeenth century, on Iceland in the seventeenth century, on the manuscripts accessed for the translation, and on the book’s early modern European context.