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