A new international maritime order was forged in the early
modern age, yet until now histories of the period have dealt almost
exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. "Catholic Pirates
and Greek Merchants" shifts attention to the Mediterranean,
providing a major history of an important but neglected sphere of
the early modern maritime world, and upending the conventional view
of the Mediterranean as a religious frontier where Christians and
Muslims met to do battle.
Molly Greene investigates the conflicts between the Catholic
pirates of Malta--the Knights of St. John--and their victims, the
Greek merchants who traded in Mediterranean waters, and uses these
conflicts as a window into an international maritime order that was
much more ambiguous than has been previously thought. The Greeks,
as Christian subjects to the Muslim Ottomans, were the very
embodiment of this ambiguity. Much attention has been given to
Muslim pirates such as the Barbary corsairs, with the focus on
Muslim-on-Christian violence. Greene delves into the archives of
Malta's pirate court--which theoretically offered redress to these
Christian victims--to paint a considerably more complex picture and
to show that pirates, far from being outside the law, were vital
actors in the continuous negotiations of legality and illegality in
the Mediterranean Sea.
"Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants" brings the Mediterranean
and Catholic piracy into the broader context of early modern
history, and sheds new light on commerce and the struggle for power
in this volatile age.
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