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Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England
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Product Description
At last available in a modern, annotated edition, these tales describe combat at sea, extraordinary escapes, and religious conversion, but they also illustrate the power, prosperity, and piety of Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #462951 in Books
- Published on: 2001-10-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Piracy, slavery, captivity, and redemption were compelling subjects in the sixteenth and seventeenth century; Daniel J. Vitkus and Nabil Matar have, in this well-edited volume of early English images of the Islamic world, made them equally fascinating to twenty-first-century academic and lay readers... [This] books does a fine job of making primary source material available to, and readable by, a wide audience." -- Carolyn S. Knapp, The Historian "[T]his collection transcends geographical and disciplinary boundaries, and researchers... will find Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption to be both a useful and timely volume." -- Donna Amelia Vinson, Renaissance Quarterly
About the Author
Daniel Vitkus is assistant professor of English at Florida State University. He is the editor of Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England (Columbia, 2000).
