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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... captives to the biggest slave market in the Black Sea region , Caffa ( Kefe ; Kaffa ; presently the city of Feodosia ) , on the Crimean coast , whence the captives were shipped to other Mediterranean slave markets . She then appeared in ...
... captives to the biggest slave market in the Black Sea region , Caffa ( Kefe ; Kaffa ; presently the city of Feodosia ) , on the Crimean coast , whence the captives were shipped to other Mediterranean slave markets . She then appeared in ...
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... captives . The most notable of these sources were the reports of the Venetian ambassadors ( baili ) , particularly by Pietro Bragadino ( 1526 ) , Bernardo Navagero ( 1553 ) , Domenico Trevisano ( 1554 ) , and the author of " Relazione ...
... captives . The most notable of these sources were the reports of the Venetian ambassadors ( baili ) , particularly by Pietro Bragadino ( 1526 ) , Bernardo Navagero ( 1553 ) , Domenico Trevisano ( 1554 ) , and the author of " Relazione ...
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... if the relationship with the sultan soured . One can imagine the constant and terrifying insecurity the members of the kullar must have felt under these circumstances . Hurrem entered the empire as a captive in a slave market — the lowest.
... if the relationship with the sultan soured . One can imagine the constant and terrifying insecurity the members of the kullar must have felt under these circumstances . Hurrem entered the empire as a captive in a slave market — the lowest.
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Galina I. Yermolenko. 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 . 12 On the structure ...
Galina I. Yermolenko. 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 . 12 On the structure ...
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... captive of Bosnian origin who was shrewd enough to earn governor positions at Suleiman's court , and was appointed Grand Vizier in 154446 -— allowed Hurrem to form her own faction within the harem family and the government . For the ...
... captive of Bosnian origin who was shrewd enough to earn governor positions at Suleiman's court , and was appointed Grand Vizier in 154446 -— allowed Hurrem to form her own faction within the harem family and the government . For the ...
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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