Month: December 2020

Since this is the last blog post of 2020, and since, thanks to COVID-19, this year has been a sort[…]

In 1835, the Reverend Michael Russell published a book on North Africa titled History and Present Condition of the Barbary[…]

From the mid sixteen through to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the Barbary corsair enterprise was huge. Corsairs ranged[…]

Both the Trinitarian and Mercedarian orders functioned quite effectively and pursued their virtuous goal of ransoming captives throughout the era[…]