The Sonic Environment of the Palace

Sally Kohn: It's interesting the way you described it through this gender segregated lens. We can see how merchants would be effective conveyors and indeed purveyors of information in the sort of maritime Mediterranean arena, but just the same if you want access to information behind the walls of the household. She says some are vanishing, maybe a neighbor from Venice or in the case of Maghrib, all these sultanas. They are doing secret deprecising Christianity. I mean, treating all the some of these religious priests who fell into captivity in Algiers, they treat them so well because they're still Christians and they forced to convert Islam. Not in Istanbul, but it