CONTENTS
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PREFACE......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
ENIKO CSUKOVITS Miraculous escapes from Ottoman captivity......Page 22
ISTVÁN TRINGLI Litigations for Ottoman prisoners of war and the siege of Buzsin (1481, 1522)......Page 40
ÁRPÁD NÓGRÁDY A list of ransom for Ottoman captives imprisoned in Croatian castles (1492)......Page 48
GÉZA PÁLFFY Ransom slavery along the Ottoman– Hungarian frontier in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries......Page 56
KLÁRA HEGYI Freed slaves as soldiers in the Ottoman fortresses in Hungary......Page 106
FERENC SZAKÁLY The ransom of Ali bey of Koppány. The impact of capturing slaves on trade in Ottoman Hungary......Page 114
ISTVÁN GYÖRGY TÓTH Catholic missionaries as Turkish prisoners in Ottoman Hungary in the seventeenth century......Page 136
ZSUZSANNA J. ÚJVÁRY A Muslim captive's vicissitudes in Ottoman Hungary (mid-seventeenth century)......Page 162
JÁNOS J. VARGA Ransoming Ottoman slaves from Munich (1688)......Page 190
GÉZA DÁVID Manumitted male slaves at Galata and Istanbul around 1700......Page 204
MÁRIA IVANICS Enslavement, slave labour and treatment of captives in the Crimean Khanate......Page 214
PÁL FODOR Maltese pirates, Ottoman captives and French traders in the early seventeenthcentury Mediterranean......Page 242
INDEX......Page 260