Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureGalina I. Yermolenko This 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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... Polish Embassy to the Ottoman court in the years 1621–1622. Twardowski heard, at the Turkish court, that Roxolana was the daughter of an Orthodox priest from Rohatyn, a small town in Podolia, not far from Lviv. See Przewaźna legacya ...
... Polish Embassy to the Ottoman court in the years 1621–1622. Twardowski heard, at the Turkish court, that Roxolana was the daughter of an Orthodox priest from Rohatyn, a small town in Podolia, not far from Lviv. See Przewaźna legacya ...
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... Polish control at the time) and Galicia. Thus the Italian word Rossa ['Red'] emphasized Roxolana's origin in Red Rus. The inhabitants of Muscovy Rus were usually called Muscovites at the time. See Kryms'kyi, Istoriia Turechchyny, 185–6 ...
... Polish control at the time) and Galicia. Thus the Italian word Rossa ['Red'] emphasized Roxolana's origin in Red Rus. The inhabitants of Muscovy Rus were usually called Muscovites at the time. See Kryms'kyi, Istoriia Turechchyny, 185–6 ...
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... Polish King, Sigismund II August, see Szymon Askenazy, “Listy Roxolany do Zygmunta Augusta,” Kwartalnik historyczny 10 (1896): 113–4; and my essay, “Roxolana: 'The Greatest Empresse of the East',” 240–41. 29 Peirce, The Imperial Harem ...
... Polish King, Sigismund II August, see Szymon Askenazy, “Listy Roxolany do Zygmunta Augusta,” Kwartalnik historyczny 10 (1896): 113–4; and my essay, “Roxolana: 'The Greatest Empresse of the East',” 240–41. 29 Peirce, The Imperial Harem ...
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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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