Category: Background

This week, we’ll take a short break from the series of posts on the experiences of captives in Algiers and[…]

This week, we conclude the history and description of Algiers provided by Father Pierre Dan, the French Trinitarian friar, in[…]

This week, we continue with the history and description of Algiers provided by Father Pierre Dan, the French Trinitarian friar,[…]

This week, we continue with the history and description of Algiers provided by Father Pierre Dan, the French Trinitarian friar,[…]

We ended last year (2023) with a description of early seventeenth century Algiers written by Jean-Baptiste Gramaye, the Flemish academic[…]

In early May of 1619, Jean-Baptiste Gramaye—a professor at the University of Leuven, in Brabant, in what is now Belgium—had[…]

(This post is a continuation of Privateering — The Business of Piracy: Part 1. If you haven’t done so already,[…]

The early seventeenth century was a wild, violent time. The discovery of the New World a century before—and the riches[…]

When people think about the relationship between North African Barbary corsairs and the European states in the seventeenth century, they[…]

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of violent conflict, both on land and at sea. They were also[…]