In early May of 1619, Jean-Baptiste Gramaye—a professor at the University of Leuven, in Brabant, in what is now Belgium—had[…]
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Month: December 2023
JOÃO DE CARVALHO MASCARENHAS: WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE A GALLEY SLAVE
We started this year (2023) with a series of excepts from a captivity narrative written by a Portuguese soldier named[…]
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PRIVATEERING — THE BUSINESS OF PIRACY: PART 2
(This post is a continuation of Privateering — The Business of Piracy: Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]
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PRIVATEERING — THE BUSINESS OF PIRACY: PART 1
The early seventeenth century was a wild, violent time. The discovery of the New World a century before—and the riches[…]
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