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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... Publication on the History of Ukrainian SSR (Kyiv, 1991), coedited The Crimea in EthnoPolitical Dimension (Kyiv, 2005), and translated into Ukrainian Halil İnalcık's The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300– 1600 (Kyiv, 1998).
... Publication on the History of Ukrainian SSR (Kyiv, 1991), coedited The Crimea in EthnoPolitical Dimension (Kyiv, 2005), and translated into Ukrainian Halil İnalcık's The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300– 1600 (Kyiv, 1998).
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... literature of the British Renaissance and early modern Ukrainian and Russian literary and cultural relations with the West, as well as early modern travel and European perceptions of the early modern Ottoman Empire and slave system.
... literature of the British Renaissance and early modern Ukrainian and Russian literary and cultural relations with the West, as well as early modern travel and European perceptions of the early modern Ottoman Empire and slave system.
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... portrayal the venerated English historian gave the “wicked woman” in his famous Generall Historie of the Turks (1603). ... whose tight grip over Suleiman, and her insidious harem intrigues, led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
... portrayal the venerated English historian gave the “wicked woman” in his famous Generall Historie of the Turks (1603). ... whose tight grip over Suleiman, and her insidious harem intrigues, led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
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Hurrem entered the empire as a captive in a slave market—the lowest rank in the Ottoman slave hierarchy—and having reached the kullar, she was determined to solidify her privileged position by any means necessary.
Hurrem entered the empire as a captive in a slave market—the lowest rank in the Ottoman slave hierarchy—and having reached the kullar, she was determined to solidify her privileged position by any means necessary.
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There had been numerous examples in Ottoman history when young princes overthrew their august fathers. ... and order in the Empire were more important than family relations.68 That the dynastic tension could be destructive for the peace.
There had been numerous examples in Ottoman history when young princes overthrew their august fathers. ... and order in the Empire were more important than family relations.68 That the dynastic tension could be destructive for the peace.
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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