Captivity and Ransom in Ottoman Law

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="episode_no"> Episode 420</div> <br> <div class="guest_name"> <a href="https://www.reed.edu/faculty-profiles/profiles/smiley-will.html" target="_blank">with Will Smiley</a></div> <div class="host_name"> hosted by <a href="https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/ZoeGriffith.htm" target="_blank">Zoe Griffith</a></div> <br> <center> <b style="text-align: left;">Download the podcast</b></center> <center> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundcloud/OHP" target="blank" title="Click to access RSS feed">Feed</a> | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ottoman-history-podcast/id513808150" target="blank" title="Click to access series listing in iTunes">iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/m/Idu7nhligwgytnv77wvecdx3slq?t=Ottoman_History_Podcast" target="_blank">GooglePlay</a> | <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/captivity-and-ransom-in-ottoman-law-will-smiley" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></center> <br> <div class="episode_synopsis"> How did an Irish-born Russian nobleman serving in the Russian army end up an Ottoman slave and valet to an Ottoman-Albanian officer? And what possibilities existed for his eventual release? In this episode, Will Smiley traces the history of Ottoman laws of captivity and ransom in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how older practices of enslavement and ransom transformed into a new legal category of &quot;prisoner of war&quot; and shedding light on a path to modern international law that lies outside of Europe. </div> <br> </div><a href="https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2019/07/captivityandransom.html#more">« Click for More »</a>