{"product_id":"catholic-pirates-and-greek-merchants-a-maritime-history-of-the-early-modern-mediterranean-princeton-modern-greek-studies-9780691141978","title":"Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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 Maltas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665845280821,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691141975","price":69.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691141978.jpg?v=1782409920","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/catholic-pirates-and-greek-merchants-a-maritime-history-of-the-early-modern-mediterranean-princeton-modern-greek-studies-9780691141978","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}