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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... French by Andrzej Dziedzic 12 Gotthold Ephraim lessing, Giangir, or the Rejected Throne (1748) Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert 13 denys sichynsky, Roksoliana; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue (1911) ...
... French by Andrzej Dziedzic 12 Gotthold Ephraim lessing, Giangir, or the Rejected Throne (1748) Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert 13 denys sichynsky, Roksoliana; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue (1911) ...
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... French school. Bibliotheque de la Comédie Française, paris, France. Courtesy of Bridgeman art library. Roksolana; anonymous ukrainian artist; oil on canvas; late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By permission of national museum of ...
... French school. Bibliotheque de la Comédie Française, paris, France. Courtesy of Bridgeman art library. Roksolana; anonymous ukrainian artist; oil on canvas; late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By permission of national museum of ...
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... French in the department of Foreign languages and literatures at the university of Wisconsin-oshkosh. He received his ph.d in French literature from northwestern university. His main area of specialization is sixteenth-century French ...
... French in the department of Foreign languages and literatures at the university of Wisconsin-oshkosh. He received his ph.d in French literature from northwestern university. His main area of specialization is sixteenth-century French ...
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... French chargé d'affaires mr. Codignac to m. ladève, published in Girolamo Ruscelli, Lettere di principi, 2 vols (Venezia [Venice: G. Ziletti], 1570), 1: fols 166v–72r. it must be noted that historians do not always directly connect ...
... French chargé d'affaires mr. Codignac to m. ladève, published in Girolamo Ruscelli, Lettere di principi, 2 vols (Venezia [Venice: G. Ziletti], 1570), 1: fols 166v–72r. it must be noted that historians do not always directly connect ...
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... French Riviera. see Goodwin, The Private World of Ottoman Women, 126; and Fisher, “The Life and Family of Süleymân i,” 9–10. 74 “... non fu mai nella casa ottomana alcuna donna che avesse maggior autorità.” alberi, Relazioni degli ...
... French Riviera. see Goodwin, The Private World of Ottoman Women, 126; and Fisher, “The Life and Family of Süleymân i,” 9–10. 74 “... non fu mai nella casa ottomana alcuna donna che avesse maggior autorità.” alberi, Relazioni degli ...
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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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