Medievalists.net » Pirates http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 ‘Pirates, robbers and other malefactors’: The role played by violence at sea in relations between England and the Hanse towns, 1385 – 1420 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/17/pirates-robbers-and-other-malefactors-the-role-played-by-violence-at-sea-in-relations-between-england-and-the-hanse-towns-1385-1420/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/17/pirates-robbers-and-other-malefactors-the-role-played-by-violence-at-sea-in-relations-between-england-and-the-hanse-towns-1385-1420/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:50:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=62591 This thesis will argue that the impact of specific phenomena, particularly the activities of the Vitalienbrüder, on Anglo-Hanseatic relations has been not only neglected but misunderstood, and that attention to English sources can help flesh out our understanding of the Vitalienbrüder’s history.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/12/piracy-in-late-roman-britain-a-perspective-from-the-viking-age/feed/ 0 Fraxinetum: An Islamic Frontier State in Tenth Century Provence http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/03/fraxinetum-an-islamic-frontier-state-in-tenth-century-provence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/03/fraxinetum-an-islamic-frontier-state-in-tenth-century-provence/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2013 20:48:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41900 How did a Muslim mini-state emerge on the southern coast of France in the tenth century?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/03/fraxinetum-an-islamic-frontier-state-in-tenth-century-provence/feed/ 0 Danger from the high seas: Pirates shaped the history of the Mediterranean for 3000 years http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/22/danger-from-the-high-seas-pirates-shaped-the-history-of-the-mediterranean-for-3000-years/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/22/danger-from-the-high-seas-pirates-shaped-the-history-of-the-mediterranean-for-3000-years/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:09:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40042 Eye patch, peg leg and hook arm – these are the attributes commonly connoted with pirates. What many might not know is that pirates had been painting the waters of the Mediterranean red for almost 3,000 years.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/22/danger-from-the-high-seas-pirates-shaped-the-history-of-the-mediterranean-for-3000-years/feed/ 0 The Sovereign and the Pirates, 1332 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/07/the-sovereign-and-the-pirates-1332/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/07/the-sovereign-and-the-pirates-1332/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:38:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37809 One Monday in early Spring 1332 a galley commanded by two Genoese ran aground on the tiny island of Brescou in the Mediterranean, a mile or so off shore of the episcopal city of Agde.

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