Kalózok és kalózhajók
Pirates and their Ships

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the image of pirates as represented in popular culture, and explores how the myth of the pirate in the human imaginary became connected to the ideas of freedom and an alternative way of life. The Golden Age of Piracy (17th and 18th century) is presented as the period where the most remarkable stories about pirates have their roots, and non-fictional and fictional accounts about pirates are discussed in order to identify the common elements of the stories. Books written by Alexander Exquemelin and captain Charles Johnson are the most important contemporary sources for the research concerning the life of pirates, but oral accounts, novels and popular movies have created since then a complete mythology of piratery

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