HI127 Lecture 3: Lecture 3
Document Summary
Title: entry 3: medieval pirates on the margins. The mediterranean ater rome: no single vision of what piracy is/isint. 250s: sea raiding: black sea; aegea; siege of athens (not successful) Arab pirates in the mediterranean: the historical background. Arab expansion and the pirate epidemic" of the ninth/tenth centuries. Aghlabid dynasty (from the maghreb) and their leets. On the fringes of conquest: the corsairs of chandax and other muslim pirates. 814: expulsion of rebels from al andalus; conquest of alexandria, crete. Went on the wrong side, but then portaged across the land, and destroyed the pirates. Gaeta enclave (882: burning of montescassino (883) 907: oleg"s atack: chains on harbors, wheels on boats! Pietro oreselo (1000) : ambushes ship of noble men. Husbands death (1343) and hundreds year war. Remarries and leaves the sea and her revenge behind. Records from england where the king has granted her an income. Menioned in one truce as an allies.
