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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... imperial harem by ibrahim pasha, the close friend of the young Crown prince suleiman.4 ibrahim presented her to suleiman, probably before the latter became sultan in 1520. Her playful temperament and great singing ability quickly won ...
... imperial harem by ibrahim pasha, the close friend of the young Crown prince suleiman.4 ibrahim presented her to suleiman, probably before the latter became sultan in 1520. Her playful temperament and great singing ability quickly won ...
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... Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (new york: oxford university press, 1993), 58–9. 7 there is a great deal of disagreement in Western sources, both old and recent, about the number and succession of children ...
... Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (new york: oxford university press, 1993), 58–9. 7 there is a great deal of disagreement in Western sources, both old and recent, about the number and succession of children ...
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... 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 rather graceful, elegant, and ...
... 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 rather graceful, elegant, and ...
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... ottoman harem 18 peirce, The Imperial Harem, 127–8. 19 ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554–1562, trans. Edward s. Forster (Baton Rouge: louisiana state ...
... ottoman harem 18 peirce, The Imperial Harem, 127–8. 19 ogier Ghislain de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554–1562, trans. Edward s. Forster (Baton Rouge: louisiana state ...
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... harem. yet, as one writer put it, when Hurrem burst into the imperial harem, everyone graduated very quickly.24 Hurrem's long-time rival, mahidevran, was out of the way in 1534, having followed her son mustafa to the province of manisa ...
... harem. yet, as one writer put it, when Hurrem burst into the imperial harem, everyone graduated very quickly.24 Hurrem's long-time rival, mahidevran, was out of the way in 1534, having followed her son mustafa to the province of manisa ...
Contents
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Part 1 Critical Essays | 21 |
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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