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The 1570s marked the beginning of an age of pervasive piracy in the Mediterranean that persisted into the eighteenth century. Nowhere was more inviting to pirates than the Ottoman-dominated eastern Mediterranean. In this bustling maritime ecosystem, weak imperial defenses and permissive politics made piracy possible, while robust trade made itā¦
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Focusing on the period beginning with 1571ās epic battle of Lepanto and extending through the so-called āNorthern Invasionā of the English and the Dutch into the Mediterranean, this book examines the central role piracy played in the emergence of an āOttoman Mediterraneanā as a legal space shaped by multiple, ever-shifting factors. In this wide-ranging and beautifully written study, archival sources spanning both religious and imperial spheres of law become windows onto the astonishing complexity of an early modern Mediterranean in which there were āno hard and fast lines separating Christian and Muslim spheres, but rather a culture of legal pluralismā¦
From Brian's list on the multi-religious Mediterranean.
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