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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... Laughing One'], and that was probably what attracted Suleiman's eye. She quickly became Suleiman's favorite concubine (hasseki), having ousted from that position the beautiful Circassian CRITICAL ESSAYS Roxolana in Europe.
... Laughing One'], and that was probably what attracted Suleiman's eye. She quickly became Suleiman's favorite concubine (hasseki), having ousted from that position the beautiful Circassian CRITICAL ESSAYS Roxolana in Europe.
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... concubine took a rather unusual turn. The Ottoman harem system operated on the principle “one concubine mother—one son” that was designed to prevent the mothers' influence over the sultans and dynastic affairs.6 Hurrem however bore the ...
... concubine took a rather unusual turn. The Ottoman harem system operated on the principle “one concubine mother—one son” that was designed to prevent the mothers' influence over the sultans and dynastic affairs.6 Hurrem however bore the ...
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... concubines. It may have also been her ability to produce male heirs for the Sultan that gave her that extra power. But most probably it was her intelligence and a gift for political intrigue that gave her the advantage over other women ...
... concubines. It may have also been her ability to produce male heirs for the Sultan that gave her that extra power. But most probably it was her intelligence and a gift for political intrigue that gave her the advantage over other women ...
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... concubine and mother of his children. She served as his intimate confidante. When the Sultan was absent from the capital on his numerous, almost annual, war campaigns, Hurrem informed him of daily events in their family, the royal court ...
... concubine and mother of his children. She served as his intimate confidante. When the Sultan was absent from the capital on his numerous, almost annual, war campaigns, Hurrem informed him of daily events in their family, the royal court ...
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... concubines in his harem, arguing that their unused beauty was being wasted away. Traditionally, those concubines who did not become intimate with the sultan would eventually be married off to highranking court officials, members.
... concubines in his harem, arguing that their unused beauty was being wasted away. Traditionally, those concubines who did not become intimate with the sultan would eventually be married off to highranking court officials, members.
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 | |
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Index | |
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Acmat Aluante Baykal beautiful Béhar Bess Bess’s Boyle’s captives century Chapter character Christian Christian Felix Weisse Cihangir CIRCASSA concubine court death Despina drama early modern eighteenthcentury English European Fair Maid father FATIMA female French Gayri Resmi Hurrem German Ghiselin de Busbecq Grand Vizier haseki Haugwitz heart Heywood’s honor Hurrem Sultan Ibrahim Bassa Ibrahim Pasha Imperial Harem Isabelle Istanbul Kanuni King King’s Kolomyia Kyiv Lessing’s literary Literature Lohenstein London Lviv Mahidevran Marusia Marusia Bohuslavka Mufti Mustafa Mustapha novel Ogier Ghiselin Oriental Ottoman Empire palace Paris Pasha passion Peirce play plot Polish political Prince Queen Roksoliana Rosa Roxelane Roxolana Rüstam Rustan scene Selim sexual slave Soliman story Suleiman Süleyman the Magnificent Sultan ile Söyleşi Sultan Süleyman Tatar tells texts throne Titian Tota tragedy trans translation Turkish Turkish Letters Turks Ukraine Ukrainian University Press valide sultan Venetian vols Vynnychuk Western wife woman women York Yula’s Zeangir
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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