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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]
Read moreThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]
Read moreThe term “great ordinance” was used throughout the seventeenth (and the late sixteenth and early eighteenth) centuries to mean “cannon”[…]
Read moreThis week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Tines, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]
Read moreThis week we’ll look at another excerpt from Turbulent Times, the new book about the Barbary corsair raids on Iceland[…]
Read moreThis week we look at the text of the letter written by Jasper Kristjánsson, the well-to-do Dane discussed in last[…]
Read moreThe Barbary corsair raids on Iceland in 1627 upended the lives of hundreds of people, wrenching them out of their[…]
Read moreIn the summer of 1627, two groups of Barbary corsairs raided Iceland. My Icelandic colleague, Karl Smári Hreinsson, and I[…]
Read moreLast week’s post here in this blog continued the origin story of Histoire de Babarie, the book on North African[…]
Read moreLast week’s post here in this blog continued the origin story of Histoire de Babarie, the book written by Father[…]
Read moreLast week’s post here in this blog continued the origin story of Histoire de Babarie, the book written by Father[…]
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