DER PIRATENSCHILD ZN 925

Heraldik Concho, 29 x 40 mm, 925 Sterling Silver plated, 2 rivet pins

In ancient times, pirates were often not distinguished from combatants, their employment was often considered honorable. According done to combat or even Insoldnahme point of expediency. From about 1400-1200 BC, there was a Mediterranean maritime law, but only at the time of the Delian confederacy in the 5th Attic Century, it changed the view of the pirate by the enemy as a criminal. In the first century BC Cicero described the pirates as enemies of humanity, against which was to hold no promise, not a pledge. After a period of relative insignificance of the maritime law, this view solidified in the High Middle Ages in the flat Friedloser clarification of the alleged pirates standing outside the Christian community. This worked until the 19th Century continued in the law, pirates at sea at any time to be able to kill easily. While the Jolly Roger symbol (crossed bones with a skull) for the more respectable pirate stood united Pitenschild The lower the scum of the buccaneers among them. Those who plundered not on behalf of the government, but for their "own hunger" plundered.