Trans, Janissaries, and Byzantine memory holing

[Walt]

you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

the ottoman wold castrated all their slaves.

Slaves having children was a major source of slaves that could be sold. In other words, that would have been a financial disaster.

 

[Litmus]

Slaves having children was a major source of slaves that could be sold. In other words, that would have been a financial disaster.

but the ottoman world mostly castrated their slaves.

 

[Litmus]

The black eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire

FOLDED CORNER - ‘The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan’ by George Junne (I.B. Tauris, 336 pages, £64)

www.hurriyetdailynews.com

 

[Litmus]

Unmanned: An Unnatural History of Human Castration

Deliberate castration, long used to punish criminals and prisoners of war, has also yielded harem guards and has been inflicted on young boys to stop their voices from breaking.

www.psychologytoday.com

 

[Walt]

but the ottoman world mostly castrated their slaves.

It was not unheard of, or even rare, but it was far from the majority. The Ottoman Turks were not alone in doing that either.

 

[Litmus]

It was not unheard of, or even rare, but it was far from the majority. The Ottoman Turks were not alone in doing that either.

it was the majority.