#46 Lost Genres pt. 2 - Yo Ho Yo Ho a Podcast Life for Me

<p>CONTENT WARNINGS: Discussion of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, and colonization.</p><p>Ahoy mateys! Let's set sail onto the Caribbean-blue waters of pirates in romance books. In this episode Jen and Jackie discuss what led to the Golden Age of Piracy, where pirates entered the literature, and what the differences between romantic pirates and popular pirates (Jack Sparrow anyone?) look like. Dive on in...the water's fine!</p><p></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eGAQ2LRg-s2jkB79Ux7lrNQJea8OGMoANaLxsOakIpo/edit?usp=sharing">Raging Romantics Book List!</a></p><p><a href="mailto:ragingromantics@nopl.org">Email us ragingromantics@nopl.org</a></p><p></p><p><u>Vocab:</u></p><ul><li>lestai - Greek for "thieves" - early reference to maritime pirates</li><li>peirato - latin for "pirate"</li><li>Buccaneer - From French "boucanier" meaning a pirate; a curer of wild meats, a user of a boucan, or a native grill for roasting meat</li><li>Privateer - a private merchant/ship owner who carried a letter of marque that gave them permission on behalf of their monarch/country to capture enemy merchant ships, take a profit, and then give the rest of the profit back to the state.</li><li>Golden Age of Piracy - Appr. 1690-1730 CE and refers especially to European pirates who operated in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean theaters</li></ul><p><u>Books/authors/poets/plays we mention:</u></p><ul><li><a href="https://catalog.onlib.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;pos=3&amp;cn=1680670">The Iliad </a>and <a href="https://catalog.onlib.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&amp;pos=3&amp;cn=1398136">The Odyssey</a></li><li><a href="https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/spanish_empire/ebooks/pdf/esquemeling_buccaneers.pdf">The Buccaneers of America by Alexandre Exquemelin (1678)</a></li><li><a href="https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/17002">A General History of the Robbers and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates by "Captain Johnson" (1724) </a></li><li><a href="https://www.s