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2014
- handle: 10670/1.jjhffc
- halshs: halshs-02895584
- doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379187.003.0004
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Corsairing Mediterranean Ransoming Economic history Corsaires Méditerranée Rançons Histoire économiqueSujets proches
Economic history Socioeconomic status Trade Commercial trade Foreign trade Mediterranean, Western Mediterranean Region, Western Merchants, Jewish Documents Documents, Legal Economic conditions History, Economic Drawings Sketching Trade Trade Primary sources Forerunners Primary sourcesCiter ce document
Wolfgang Kaiser et al., « The Economy of Ransoming in the Early Modern Mediterranean », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199379187.003.0004
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Drawing from diplomatic sources, commercial treatises, and legal documents, this chapter describes the ransoming of captives as an important economic sector of the early modern Mediterranean. It argues that, far from being an economy of booty and plunder that obstructed commercial exchanges, corsairing in the Mediterranean sustained a constant trade in captives that crossed religious, legal, and political boundaries.The official function of corsairing was to damage the enemy’s economic activities. But in practice, corsairing also contributed to intensify contacts between Christian, Muslim, and Jewish merchants in the western Mediterranean.