Les îles méditerranéennes ont souvent joué un rôle important dans l'organisation de la course et de la piraterie. Plus qu'une vocation, il s'agit d'un rôle imposé aux îles par leur condition de frontière maritime, par les conflits et la forme spécifique des guerres maritimes qui en font des lieux stratégiques de défense et de contrôle des routes commerciales et militaires. L'étude de quelques exemples permet de montrer comment la course et la piraterie se développent, dans les îles occidentales comme dans celles du Levant, dans un contexte de rivalités diffuses et de guerres ouvertes entre puissances chrétiennes et entre chrétiens et musulmans, qui les utilisent et les instrumentalisent. Consensus politiques ou incapacité des pouvoirs centraux à imposer des contrôles stricts des armements sont des facteurs déterminants dans la construction des espaces et des communautés insulaires qui se projettent avec agressivité sur la mer.
Islands, Privateers and Pirates in the Medieval Mediterranean. Mediterranean islands used to play an important part in the organisation of privateering and piracy. More than a vocation,this was a compulsory part imposed on the islands by their position of maritime borders, by conflicts and by the specific aspect of sea-wars that turned them into strategic places for defence and control over trade and military sea routes. The study of some examples show how privateering and piracy spread out in the western as in the Levant islands in a background of diffuse rivalry and open wars between Christian powers on the one hand and Christians and Muslims on the other hand, all of them using and manoeuvring them. Political consensus or the inability of central powers to establish strict control over weapons are determining factors in the construction of island spaces and communities that jutted out into the sea with aggressiveness.
Îles, corsaires et pirates dans la Méditerranée médiévale / Simbula, Pinuccia Franca. - In: MÉDIÉVALES. - ISSN 0751-2708. - 47:(2004), pp. 17-30.
Îles, corsaires et pirates dans la Méditerranée médiévale
SIMBULA, Pinuccia Franca
2004-01-01
Abstract
Islands, Privateers and Pirates in the Medieval Mediterranean. Mediterranean islands used to play an important part in the organisation of privateering and piracy. More than a vocation,this was a compulsory part imposed on the islands by their position of maritime borders, by conflicts and by the specific aspect of sea-wars that turned them into strategic places for defence and control over trade and military sea routes. The study of some examples show how privateering and piracy spread out in the western as in the Levant islands in a background of diffuse rivalry and open wars between Christian powers on the one hand and Christians and Muslims on the other hand, all of them using and manoeuvring them. Political consensus or the inability of central powers to establish strict control over weapons are determining factors in the construction of island spaces and communities that jutted out into the sea with aggressiveness.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.