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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... death of Suleiman's mother , valide sultan Hafsa , in 1533 - Suleiman contracted a legal marriage with Hurrem , thereby manumitting her as a slave . The event shocked both the Ottoman public and the Western observers : “ In doing this ...
... death of Suleiman's mother , valide sultan Hafsa , in 1533 - Suleiman contracted a legal marriage with Hurrem , thereby manumitting her as a slave . The event shocked both the Ottoman public and the Western observers : “ In doing this ...
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... death , Hurrem filled the niche that had been heretofore occupied only by a valide sultan . 21 The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , 28 , 118 . 22 345 . Nicolae Jorga , Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches , 21 vols ( Gotha ...
... death , Hurrem filled the niche that had been heretofore occupied only by a valide sultan . 21 The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , 28 , 118 . 22 345 . Nicolae Jorga , Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches , 21 vols ( Gotha ...
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... death . But she might have exploited the rumors against Ibrahim and influenced Suleiman's decision to remove 43 him.45 Her remark , in one of her earlier letters to Suleiman ( from 1526 ) , suggests that the relationship between the two ...
... death . But she might have exploited the rumors against Ibrahim and influenced Suleiman's decision to remove 43 him.45 Her remark , in one of her earlier letters to Suleiman ( from 1526 ) , suggests that the relationship between the two ...
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... death of her eldest son Mehmed in 1543. The young Prince was a charming person and an able governor of Manisa . Some speculated that he would be Suleiman's heir apparent.52 His death was evidently a deeply felt loss for Suleiman and his ...
... death of her eldest son Mehmed in 1543. The young Prince was a charming person and an able governor of Manisa . Some speculated that he would be Suleiman's heir apparent.52 His death was evidently a deeply felt loss for Suleiman and his ...
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... death , either died from grief58 or committed suicide59 ; and that later Hurrem organized the murder of Mustafa's young son . " 56 See The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq 32 ; Trevisano's report in Alberi , Relazioni degli ...
... death , either died from grief58 or committed suicide59 ; and that later Hurrem organized the murder of Mustafa's young son . " 56 See The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq 32 ; Trevisano's report in Alberi , Relazioni degli ...
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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