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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... Woman of Power and Desire Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu PART 2 TRANSLATIONS 8. Gonzalo de Illescas, The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606) Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto 9. Lope de Vega, The Holy ...
... Woman of Power and Desire Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu PART 2 TRANSLATIONS 8. Gonzalo de Illescas, The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606) Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto 9. Lope de Vega, The Holy ...
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... woman” in his famous Generall Historie of the Turks (1603). Most other historians were equally harsh to Roxolana, often portraying her as a witch and ruthless schemer whose tight grip over Suleiman, and her insidious harem intrigues ...
... woman” in his famous Generall Historie of the Turks (1603). Most other historians were equally harsh to Roxolana, often portraying her as a witch and ruthless schemer whose tight grip over Suleiman, and her insidious harem intrigues ...
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... woman to the summit of Ottoman power . After all , about three hundred other beautiful women in Suleiman's harem vied for their master's attention . According to the Venetian reports , Roxolana was not particularly beautiful , but ...
... woman to the summit of Ottoman power . After all , about three hundred other beautiful women in Suleiman's harem vied for their master's attention . According to the Venetian reports , Roxolana was not particularly beautiful , but ...
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... woman from Russia , called Roxalana , and there has been great feasting . The ceremony took place in the Seraglio , and the festivities have been beyond all record . There was a public procession of the presents . At night the principal ...
... woman from Russia , called Roxalana , and there has been great feasting . The ceremony took place in the Seraglio , and the festivities have been beyond all record . There was a public procession of the presents . At night the principal ...
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... woman : something that had never been done by any of his predecessors , for the Turks are accustomed to take various women in order to have children by them , or for carnal pleasure " ( " ... dopo che la conobbe , che non solamente ha ...
... woman : something that had never been done by any of his predecessors , for the Turks are accustomed to take various women in order to have children by them , or for carnal pleasure " ( " ... dopo che la conobbe , che non solamente ha ...
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 | |
Names | |
Index | |
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