Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean

Lists of figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Mario Klarer

Part 1 Labor and Law

1. Trading Identities: Balthasar Sturmer's Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the Making of the European Barbary Captivity Narrative

Mario Klarer

2. Unkind Dealings: English Captivity Narratives, Commercial Transformation, and the Economy of Unfree Labor in the Early Modern Period

Daniel Vitkus

3. Ambivalences of Recognition: The Position of the Barbary Corsairs in Early Modern International Law and International Politics

Walter Rech

4. "Free, Unfree, Captive, Slave:" Antonio de Saldanha, a Late Sixteenth-Century Captive in Marrakesh

Peter Mark

Part 2 Home and Hybridity

5. "Renegades:" Converts to Islam in American Barbary Captivity Narratives of the 1790s

Anna Diamantouli

6. Identity Crises of Homecomers from the Barbary Coast

Robert Spindler

7. "Arab Speculators:" States and Ransom Slavery in the Western Sahara

Christine E. Sears

Part 3 Diplomacy and Deliverance

8. Michael Heberer: A Prisoner in the Ottoman Navy

Robert Rebitsch

9. Piracy, Diplomacy, and Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean

Khalid Bekkaoui

10. A Comparison of Confraternity Models in the "Redemption of Slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Brugge/Bruges and the Scuola della Santissima Trinita of Venice

Andrea Pelizza

Part 4 Oppositions and Otherness

11. A Huguenot Captive in 'Uthman Dey's Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its Author

Gillian Weiss

12. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: Clashing Portraits of a Corsair-King

Diana de Armas Wilson

13. Two Arabic Accounts of Captivity in Malta: Texts and Contexts

Nabil Matar