Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureThis collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other. |
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concubine (hasseki), having ousted from that position the beautiful Circassian concubine Mahidevran (Gulbahar, Gulbehar, or Gulfrem, in other sources),5 the mother of Suleiman's firstborn son Mustafa. In 1520, Suleiman ascended the ...
concubine (hasseki), having ousted from that position the beautiful Circassian concubine Mahidevran (Gulbahar, Gulbehar, or Gulfrem, in other sources),5 the mother of Suleiman's firstborn son Mustafa. In 1520, Suleiman ascended the ...
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Yet, as one writer put it, when Hurrem burst into the imperial harem, everyone graduated very quickly.24 Hurrem's longtime rival, Mahidevran, was out of the way in 1534, having followed her son Mustafa to the province of Manisa, ...
Yet, as one writer put it, when Hurrem burst into the imperial harem, everyone graduated very quickly.24 Hurrem's longtime rival, Mahidevran, was out of the way in 1534, having followed her son Mustafa to the province of Manisa, ...
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After Hafsa's death (1533) and Mahidevran's departure from the harem (1534), Ibrahim remained Hurrem's only rival for the Sultan's attention. But even if Hurrem's jealousy of Ibrahim was illusory, it could have been easily imagined.
After Hafsa's death (1533) and Mahidevran's departure from the harem (1534), Ibrahim remained Hurrem's only rival for the Sultan's attention. But even if Hurrem's jealousy of Ibrahim was illusory, it could have been easily imagined.
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... his grief very publicly by constructing a Şehzade ['Prince'] mosque in his memory.53 After Mehmed's death, Suleiman's eldest son by Mahidevran, Prince Mustafa, was favored by both the court and the army as the new heir apparent.
... his grief very publicly by constructing a Şehzade ['Prince'] mosque in his memory.53 After Mehmed's death, Suleiman's eldest son by Mahidevran, Prince Mustafa, was favored by both the court and the army as the new heir apparent.
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5 Mahidevran's Circassian descent was mentioned in the Venetian reports discussed below: e.g., “la circassa” (Navagero); “una donna circassa” (Trevisano). See Eugenio Alberi, ed. Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, ser.
5 Mahidevran's Circassian descent was mentioned in the Venetian reports discussed below: e.g., “la circassa” (Navagero); “una donna circassa” (Trevisano). See Eugenio Alberi, ed. Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, ser.
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Contents
Seraglio Queens Politics | |
The Tragedy of Roxolana in theCourt of Charles II | |
Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas | |
How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine | |
Roxolanas Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight | |
ReWriting the Ever | |
Gonzalo de Illescas The Second Part of the Pontifical | |
Prospero della Rovere Bonarelli Soliman 1620 | |
Jean Desmares Roxelana 1643 | |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Giangir or the Rejected | |
Plot Summaries | |
Names | |
Index | |
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| Title | Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture |
| Editor | Galina I. Yermolenko |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1317061179, 9781317061175 |
| Length | 334 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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