Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean 1550 1810 1st Edition by Mario Klarer 1351207970 9781351207973

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• ISBN 10:1351207970
• ISBN 13: 9781351207973
• Author:Mario Klarer

Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of Europeans and Americans by North African pirates, as well as of North Africans by European forces, turning the Barbary Coast into the nemesis of any who went to sea. Through a variety of specifically selected narrative case studies, this book displays the blend of both authentic eye witness accounts and literary fictions that emerged against the backdrop of the tumultuous Mediterranean Sea.

Table contents:

1 Trading identities: Balthasar Sturmer’s Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the making of the European Barbary captivity narrative
2 Unkind dealings: English captivity narratives, commercial transformation, and the economy of unfree labor in the early modern period
3 Ambivalences of recognition: The position of the Barbary corsairs in early modern international law and international politics
4 “Free, unfree, captive, slave”: António de Saldanha, a late sixteenth-century captive in Marrakesh
5 “Renegades”: Converts to Islam in American Barbary captivity narratives of the 1790s
6 Identity crises of homecomers from the Barbary Coast
7 “Arab speculators,” states, and ransom slavery in the Western Sahara
8 Michael Heberer: A prisoner of the Ottoman navy
9 Piracy, diplomacy, and cultural circulations in the Mediterranean
10 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
11 Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: Clashing portraits of a corsair-king
12 A Huguenot captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly(1685) and its author
13 Two Arabic accounts of captivity in Malta: Texts and contexts

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