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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... Rosa Solymanni Vxor; from Richard Knolles's The Generall Historie of the Turkes until this present Yeare 1603 (London, 1603); based on the engraving by Theodore de Bry. By permission of The British Library Board, RB.31.c.453. Image from ...
... Rosa Solymanni Vxor; from Richard Knolles's The Generall Historie of the Turkes until this present Yeare 1603 (London, 1603); based on the engraving by Theodore de Bry. By permission of The British Library Board, RB.31.c.453. Image from ...
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... Rosa , and Richard Noll , who at various points assisted me with research advice and translations , and commented on the conference papers and essays that went into this volume . The Humanities Department secretary Gloria Lewis has my ...
... Rosa , and Richard Noll , who at various points assisted me with research advice and translations , and commented on the conference papers and essays that went into this volume . The Humanities Department secretary Gloria Lewis has my ...
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... (Rosa Solimana), a little known page in the evolution of her Western images. In contrast to Illescas's chronicle and the French and English Senecan tragedies that demonized Roxolana as a law-breaker and a witch, Rosa Solimana appears as ...
... (Rosa Solimana), a little known page in the evolution of her Western images. In contrast to Illescas's chronicle and the French and English Senecan tragedies that demonized Roxolana as a law-breaker and a witch, Rosa Solimana appears as ...
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... in proprium filium , by Nicholas de Moffan , a Burgundian noble and erstwhile Turkish captive and prisoner . Moffan put the wicked Roxolana ( Rosa ) , Busbecq's specific comments on Roxolana are cited in my biographical.
... in proprium filium , by Nicholas de Moffan , a Burgundian noble and erstwhile Turkish captive and prisoner . Moffan put the wicked Roxolana ( Rosa ) , Busbecq's specific comments on Roxolana are cited in my biographical.
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... Rosa fell into sorrow, and was soon manumitted by the besotted Sultan. Rosa's next trick was to refuse the Sultan physical intimacy on the grounds that as a free woman, possessing free will, she would be committing a carnal sin by going ...
... Rosa fell into sorrow, and was soon manumitted by the besotted Sultan. Rosa's next trick was to refuse the Sultan physical intimacy on the grounds that as a free woman, possessing free will, she would be committing a carnal sin by going ...
Contents
Seraglio Queens Politics and Sexuality in Thomas | |
The Tragedy of Roxolana in the Court 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 Elusive Woman | |
Gonzalo de Illescas The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History 1606 | |
Jean Desmares Roxelana 1643 | |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Giangir or the Rejected Throne 1748 | |
Denys Sichynsky Roksoliana Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue | |
Plot Summaries | |
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Index | |
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