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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... 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) Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina ...
... 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) Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina ...
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... Giangir oder der verschmähte Thron (1748). The first two plays elaborated on the ibrahim murder, while the latter two drew on the mustapha murder. allert compares and contrasts the Baroque images of Roxolana featured in lohenstein's and ...
... Giangir oder der verschmähte Thron (1748). The first two plays elaborated on the ibrahim murder, while the latter two drew on the mustapha murder. allert compares and contrasts the Baroque images of Roxolana featured in lohenstein's and ...
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... Giangir).79 78 the titles of these works are translated here into English. 79 three of these plots are rooted in the events of Hurrem's real-life career described above. the story of Roxolana's tricking soliman into marriage does not ...
... Giangir).79 78 the titles of these works are translated here into English. 79 three of these plots are rooted in the events of Hurrem's real-life career described above. the story of Roxolana's tricking soliman into marriage does not ...
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... Giangir oder der verschmähte Thron (1748) gives the readers a glimpse into how the Enlightenment may have perceived Roxolana. this translation accompanies allert's discussion of the response of the German Baroque and Enlightenment drama ...
... Giangir oder der verschmähte Thron (1748) gives the readers a glimpse into how the Enlightenment may have perceived Roxolana. this translation accompanies allert's discussion of the response of the German Baroque and Enlightenment drama ...
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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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