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The North European way of ransoming: explorations into an unknown dimension of the early modern welfare state

Die nordeuropäische Art des Gefangenenfreikaufs: eine unbekannte Dimension des frühmodernen Wohlfahrtstaates
[journal article]

Ressel, Magnus

Abstract

"This article is concerned with distinctly 'confessional' characteristics in the organization of buying back captured sailors out of Northern Africa. The history and ways of slave redemption of Hamburg, Lubeck, the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway and the Netherlands are presented, analyzed and compared. A... view more

"This article is concerned with distinctly 'confessional' characteristics in the organization of buying back captured sailors out of Northern Africa. The history and ways of slave redemption of Hamburg, Lubeck, the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway and the Netherlands are presented, analyzed and compared. As a result it is possible to distinguish the comparatively prominent role that centralized, bureaucratized and governmentally administered institutions played in the ransoming business of the Lutheran world." (author's abstract)... view less


"In diesem Artikel werden 'konfessionelle' Aspekte der Organisation des Sklavenfreikaufs von gefangenen Seeleuten aus Nordafrika untersucht. Die Geschichte und die Art des Sklavenfreikaufs von Hamburg, Lübeck, dem Königreich Dänemark-Norwegen und den Niederlanden werden präsentiert, analysiert und m... view more

"In diesem Artikel werden 'konfessionelle' Aspekte der Organisation des Sklavenfreikaufs von gefangenen Seeleuten aus Nordafrika untersucht. Die Geschichte und die Art des Sklavenfreikaufs von Hamburg, Lübeck, dem Königreich Dänemark-Norwegen und den Niederlanden werden präsentiert, analysiert und miteinander verglichen. Als Resultat ist relativ deutlich eine starke Rolle von zentralisierten, bürokratisierten und staatlich verwalteten Institutionen in der lutheranischen Welt erkennbar." (Autorenreferat)... view less

Keywords
North Africa; developing country; Africa; theory; historical analysis; security; Federal Republic of Germany; freedom; Hamburg; Protestantism; Germany; Europe; Northern Europe; money; human security; shipping; international comparison; Muslim; Mediterranean region; Netherlands; slave; institutional factors; Hanseatic league; Denmark; large city

Classification
General History

Method
historical; theory application

Document language
English

Publication Year
2010

Page/Pages
p. 125-147

Journal
Historical Social Research, 35 (2010) 4

Issue topic
Die Produktion von Human Security in Vormoderne und Zeitgeschichte

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.35.2010.4.125-147

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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