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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... English Books online published with permission of proQuest llC. Frontispiece of prospero Bonarelli's tragedy, Il Solimano (Florence, 1620); etching by Jacques Callot. Courtesy of the Rosenwald Collection of the library of Congress ...
... English Books online published with permission of proQuest llC. Frontispiece of prospero Bonarelli's tragedy, Il Solimano (Florence, 1620); etching by Jacques Callot. Courtesy of the Rosenwald Collection of the library of Congress ...
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... working on two book projects which examine the international slave trade in early modern Eastern Europe and the ottoman province of kefe (Caffa). Judy a. Hayden is associate professor of English and director Notes on Contributors.
... working on two book projects which examine the international slave trade in early modern Eastern Europe and the ottoman province of kefe (Caffa). Judy a. Hayden is associate professor of English and director Notes on Contributors.
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... English, Papers on Language and Literature, Critical Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, and Studies in English Literature. Her book Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn will be ...
... English, Papers on Language and Literature, Critical Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, and Studies in English Literature. Her book Of Love and War: The Political Voice in the Early Plays of Aphra Behn will be ...
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... English language. she has contributed various articles on the etymology of English words, such as “she,” “caramel” and “downtown.” Maryna Romanets is associate professor of English at the university of northern British Columbia, Canada ...
... English language. she has contributed various articles on the etymology of English words, such as “she,” “caramel” and “downtown.” Maryna Romanets is associate professor of English at the university of northern British Columbia, Canada ...
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... English translations are signaled by square brackets and single quotation marks. spellings archaic English and foreign language spellings are usually retained in quotations from old sources and their titles. Conventional English ...
... English translations are signaled by square brackets and single quotation marks. spellings archaic English and foreign language spellings are usually retained in quotations from old sources and their titles. Conventional English ...
Contents
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Part 2 Translations | 165 |
Appendix 1 Plot Summaries | 255 |
Appendix 2 Names | 271 |
Appendix 3 Chronology | 275 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 301 |
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