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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... Queens, politics, and sexuality in thomas Heywood's Fair Maid of the West, parts i and ii Claire Jowitt 3 the tragedy of Roxolana in theCourt of Charles ii Judy A. Hayden 4 Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment dramas Beate ...
... Queens, politics, and sexuality in thomas Heywood's Fair Maid of the West, parts i and ii Claire Jowitt 3 the tragedy of Roxolana in theCourt of Charles ii Judy A. Hayden 4 Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment dramas Beate ...
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... queen on the Western imagination is comparable only to that of Cleopatra. “the greatest empresse of the East,” Richard knolles wrote of her—rather high praise, considering the scathingly critical portrayal the venerated English ...
... queen on the Western imagination is comparable only to that of Cleopatra. “the greatest empresse of the East,” Richard knolles wrote of her—rather high praise, considering the scathingly critical portrayal the venerated English ...
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... queen, my everything, my beloved, my bright moon; my intimate companion, my one and all, sovereign of all beauties, my sultan. my life, the gift i own, my be-all, my elixir of paradise, my Eden, my spring, my joy, my glittering day, my ...
... queen, my everything, my beloved, my bright moon; my intimate companion, my one and all, sovereign of all beauties, my sultan. my life, the gift i own, my be-all, my elixir of paradise, my Eden, my spring, my joy, my glittering day, my ...
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... Queen tota, a character from thomas Heywood's play Fair Maid of the West (parts i and ii), who is represented as a sexual predator and a manipulative and ruthless witch. the essay explores the ways in which Bess, “the fair maid of the ...
... Queen tota, a character from thomas Heywood's play Fair Maid of the West (parts i and ii), who is represented as a sexual predator and a manipulative and ruthless witch. the essay explores the ways in which Bess, “the fair maid of the ...
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... queen, Roxolana stands at the crossroads of these concerns. a crosscultural and transnational figure, she represents the Exotic Female Other par excellence. the collection also brings to the fore, and questions, the roles of various ...
... queen, Roxolana stands at the crossroads of these concerns. a crosscultural and transnational figure, she represents the Exotic Female Other par excellence. the collection also brings to the fore, and questions, the roles of various ...
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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