Sundry Pirate Information
Jul. 7th, 2007 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liresiusYay! Pirates and Buccaneers had TEH BIG GAY LOVE!! Ha! I did know this but it's still good to listen to learned researchers pontificate on the subject here where you can d/ the audio or "listen now"
Australia's ABC blurb: "Pet parrots, excessive drinking, skull and cross-bone flags -- these are all things we associate with pirates but, did you know that in the 18th century when you became a pirate, you had to sign up to special pirate rules, or that there's a tradition of homosexuality within the ranks of pirating?
Well, Bartholomew Roberts raided 400 boats in his short career as a pirate in the Atlantic from 1719-1722 but, unlike the classic image we have of pirates, he didn't drink, gamble or carouse with women. Richard Sanders is a pirate historian and he's written about this disciplinarian pirate in his book If A Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Caribbean.
The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange spoke to Richard Sanders about the allure of pirating for the common man."
ETA: Without romanticizing pirates, I do take the message that the demise of the Golden Age of Pirates appears to have removed the last impediment to the slave trade.
Also in other news the first in the world to be convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology :-(
ETA: I'm off to Mie tomorrow (a prefecture a bit south-west of me) to pick up the vase I bought from my dear potter friend two years ago. We've been so busy and haven't been able to catch up until now.
Australia's ABC blurb: "Pet parrots, excessive drinking, skull and cross-bone flags -- these are all things we associate with pirates but, did you know that in the 18th century when you became a pirate, you had to sign up to special pirate rules, or that there's a tradition of homosexuality within the ranks of pirating?
Well, Bartholomew Roberts raided 400 boats in his short career as a pirate in the Atlantic from 1719-1722 but, unlike the classic image we have of pirates, he didn't drink, gamble or carouse with women. Richard Sanders is a pirate historian and he's written about this disciplinarian pirate in his book If A Pirate I Must Be: The True Story of Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Caribbean.
The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange spoke to Richard Sanders about the allure of pirating for the common man."
ETA: Without romanticizing pirates, I do take the message that the demise of the Golden Age of Pirates appears to have removed the last impediment to the slave trade.
Also in other news the first in the world to be convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology :-(
ETA: I'm off to Mie tomorrow (a prefecture a bit south-west of me) to pick up the vase I bought from my dear potter friend two years ago. We've been so busy and haven't been able to catch up until now.
