Heretical enemy or vanguard of commerce? The pirate in the 16th-century legal and literary imagination
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on April 12, 2024
Abstract
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 312-338, June 2026.
This article uses legal and literary accounts of Francis Drake’s 16th-century depredations to consider the historical figure of the pirate in legal thought. Against the transhistorical figure of universal enmity of many international legal accounts, the ...
This article uses legal and literary accounts of Francis Drake’s 16th-century depredations to consider the historical figure of the pirate in legal thought. Against the transhistorical figure of universal enmity of many international legal accounts, the ...