Month: September 2021

Sir Kenelm Digby—an English nobleman of the early seventeenth century—led a complicated life. His father, Sir Everard Digby, had been[…]

This week, we continue with Sir Kenelm Digby’s narrative of his time in Algiers in the late winter/early spring of[…]

More than any other North African city, perhaps, Algiers epitomized for Europeans the horrors of piracy and the slave trade.[…]