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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... Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age, eds metin kunt and Christine Woodhead (new york: longman, 1995). see also earlier classic studies: albert lybyer, The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent ...
... Süleyman the Magnificent and His Age, eds metin kunt and Christine Woodhead (new york: longman, 1995). see also earlier classic studies: albert lybyer, The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent ...
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... Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition cat. (British museum publications, 1988; new york: tabard press, 1988), 18. 16 inalcik, The Ottoman Empire, 87. 17 From a poem translated by talat s. Halman, in Suleyman the Magnificent Poet ...
... Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition cat. (British museum publications, 1988; new york: tabard press, 1988), 18. 16 inalcik, The Ottoman Empire, 87. 17 From a poem translated by talat s. Halman, in Suleyman the Magnificent Poet ...
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... Süleyman the Magnificent, 16; Goodwin, The Private World of Ottoman Women, 125; and J. Michael Rogers, “The Arts under Süleyman the Magnificent,” Süleymân the Second and His Time, eds inalcik and kafadar, 285. 28 27 For more details on ...
... Süleyman the Magnificent, 16; Goodwin, The Private World of Ottoman Women, 125; and J. Michael Rogers, “The Arts under Süleyman the Magnificent,” Süleymân the Second and His Time, eds inalcik and kafadar, 285. 28 27 For more details on ...
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... magnificent wedding ceremony in May 1524.35 ibrahim was appointed Commander-in-Chief for several war campaigns ... Süleyman the Magnificent, 10. 36 Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, 9–10. 37 E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of ...
... magnificent wedding ceremony in May 1524.35 ibrahim was appointed Commander-in-Chief for several war campaigns ... Süleyman the Magnificent, 10. 36 Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, 9–10. 37 E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of ...
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... Süleyman the Magnificent, 11. 47 Cf. leslie peirce, “the Family as Faction: dynastic politics in the Reign of Süleyman,” Veinstein, Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, 110. during these years, Hurrem's royal status and public image were ...
... Süleyman the Magnificent, 11. 47 Cf. leslie peirce, “the Family as Faction: dynastic politics in the Reign of Süleyman,” Veinstein, Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, 110. during these years, Hurrem's royal status and public image were ...
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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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