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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... Grand Vizier ibrahim pasha (1493–1536), suleiman's bosom friend and favorite courtier, was suddenly executed in the imperial palace after he had dined with the sultan and retired into a guest bedroom for the night. He was found dead the ...
... Grand Vizier ibrahim pasha (1493–1536), suleiman's bosom friend and favorite courtier, was suddenly executed in the imperial palace after he had dined with the sultan and retired into a guest bedroom for the night. He was found dead the ...
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... Grand Vizier within the first three years of Suleiman's rule.34 according to some sources, he even married suleiman's sister Hatice Sultan in a magnificent wedding ceremony in May 1524.35 ibrahim was appointed Commander-in-Chief for ...
... Grand Vizier within the first three years of Suleiman's rule.34 according to some sources, he even married suleiman's sister Hatice Sultan in a magnificent wedding ceremony in May 1524.35 ibrahim was appointed Commander-in-Chief for ...
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... Grand Vizier in 154446—allowed Hurrem to form her own faction within the harem family and the government. For the first time in ottoman history, a former concubine was able to wield so much power due to her unique position within the ...
... Grand Vizier in 154446—allowed Hurrem to form her own faction within the harem family and the government. For the first time in ottoman history, a former concubine was able to wield so much power due to her unique position within the ...
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... Grand Vizier Rustem. Busbecq wrote in his Turkish Letters: “the turks [...] are convinced that it was by the calumnies of Roostem and the spells of Roxolana, who was in ill repute as a practiser of witchcraft, that the sultan was so ...
... Grand Vizier Rustem. Busbecq wrote in his Turkish Letters: “the turks [...] are convinced that it was by the calumnies of Roostem and the spells of Roxolana, who was in ill repute as a practiser of witchcraft, that the sultan was so ...
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... Grand Vizier. there also appeared numerous poetic laments on mustafa's death. the poet yahya Bey wrote: alas! alas! and a column of the earth is broke atwain; For the tyrant death's marauders prince mustafa have slain. Eclipsed is his ...
... Grand Vizier. there also appeared numerous poetic laments on mustafa's death. the poet yahya Bey wrote: alas! alas! and a column of the earth is broke atwain; For the tyrant death's marauders prince mustafa have slain. Eclipsed is his ...
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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