The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations
The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations

Author: William Lithgow

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13:

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The author of this book, William Lithgow, a man who lived in the 16th century, famed for his journeys on foot across various parts of the world, including Spain, Turkey, France, and Egypt. Lithgow seems to have started his travels at a very early age, having 'a large infusion of the wandering spirit common to his country-men.' He claims that his 'painful feet traced over (beside my passages of Seas and Rivers) thirty-six thousand and odd miles, which draws near to twice the circumference of the whole Earth.'

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 29
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 29

Author: S.P. Cerasano

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0838644821

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes eight new articles, a review essays, and review of six books.

Barbary Pirate
Barbary Pirate

Author: Greg Bak

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0752496662

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In Barbary Pirate, Greg Bak tells the extraordinary story of how an ordinary seaman became a privateer under the protection of the Pasha of Tunis.

Englishmen at Sea
Englishmen at Sea

Author: Eleanor Hubbard

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0300246129

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A deeply researched, analytically rich, and vivid account of England's early maritime empire Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for ruthlessness. Peace in 1603 forced these predatory seamen to adapt to a radically changed world, one in which they were expected to risk their lives for merchants' gain, not plunder. Merchant trading companies expected sailors to relinquish their unruly ways and to help convince overseas rulers and trading partners that the English were a courteous and trustworthy "nation." Some sailors rebelled, becoming pirates and renegades; others demanded and often received concessions and shares in new trading opportunities. Treated gently by a state that was anxious to promote seafaring in order to man the navy, these determined sailors helped to keep the sea a viable and attractive trade for Englishmen.

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries
Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

Author: Peter Paul Bajer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9004210652

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In the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.