>>15392246Mikhael Doukas (15th century):
“In Prusa [Bursa], Bayezid enjoyed the many fruits of good fortune and reveled in the daily homage of many nations. He lacked nothing that was beautiful from the coffers of nations... Boys and girls, selected for their unblemished bodies and beauty of countenance, were there - young and tender youths, and girls who outshone the sun. From where did they come? Romans, Serbs, Vlachs, Albanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Bulgarians and Latins, each speaking his own language and all there against their will. And Bayezid, living idly and wantonly, never ceased from lascivious sexual acts, indulging in licentious behavior with boys and girls.”
Gregory Palamas (14th century)
“… they live by their bows and swords, rejoicing in enslavement, murder, raiding, looting, wantonness, adultery, sodomy. And not only do they indulge in such practices, but (O madness!) they think that God approves them.”
Theodore Spandounes (15th century)
“They are the most self-indulgent men in the world. They keep many women because their law encourages the propagation of children. But they also cohabit with quantities of men. For all that Mohamet explicitly forbade sodomy and recommended the stoning of those guilty of it, this vice is commonly and openly practiced without fear of God or man.”
Bertrandon de la Broquiere (d. 1459) about Murad II;
“His [Murad's] next greatest pleasure [after drinking wine] is women and young sodomite boys. He has three hundred wives or more, and twenty-five or thirty young men who are always with him, more frequently than his wives. When the boys grow up he gives them great gifts and lordships. To one of them he gave his sister as wife and twenty-five thousands ducats.”
