SC - Medieval pirates

[Stefan li Rous]

Kat said:
>1)      There has already been *such* a hoo-hah in our group about pirates
and not-being-period and 
>glorification-of-violence and so on and so on, that I am extremely hesitant
to cross any more lines;

There are definitely period. They just weren't the ones glamorized in 
the movies. Those tend to be the ones looting the Spanish Carribean
after 1600.

There is some info in this file in the CULTURES section of my Florilegium:
pirates-msg       (23K)  3/28/97    Pirates throughout the Middle Ages.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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