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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... Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine Oleksander Halenko 109 6 Roxolana's Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight Maryna Romanets 125 7 Roxolana in Turkish Literature : Re - Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of Power and Desire ...
... Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine Oleksander Halenko 109 6 Roxolana's Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight Maryna Romanets 125 7 Roxolana in Turkish Literature : Re - Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of Power and Desire ...
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... Turkish transliterations and for procuring the turkish images for the collection. i also thank Erika Gaffney, my editor at ashgate, for her guidance and patience. Finally, my heartfelt thanks go to my sister luidmila yermolenko, for ...
... Turkish transliterations and for procuring the turkish images for the collection. i also thank Erika Gaffney, my editor at ashgate, for her guidance and patience. Finally, my heartfelt thanks go to my sister luidmila yermolenko, for ...
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... turkish orthography for words and names of turkish, arabic, or persian origin. several unfamiliar turkish letters correspond to and are transliterated in latin/English letters, according to the following: c — as j in English (e.g. ...
... turkish orthography for words and names of turkish, arabic, or persian origin. several unfamiliar turkish letters correspond to and are transliterated in latin/English letters, according to the following: c — as j in English (e.g. ...
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... Turkish court , that Roxolana was the daughter of an Orthodox priest from Rohatyn , a small town in Podolia , not far from Lviv . See Przewaźna legacya i.o. Krysztofa Zbaraskiego ... do Najpotężniejszego sołtana cesarza tureckiego ...
... Turkish court , that Roxolana was the daughter of an Orthodox priest from Rohatyn , a small town in Podolia , not far from Lviv . See Przewaźna legacya i.o. Krysztofa Zbaraskiego ... do Najpotężniejszego sołtana cesarza tureckiego ...
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... Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , the Emissary of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand to the Porte between 1554 and 1562.9 In European reports and accounts , Hurrem was always referred to as Rossa , Rosselana , or Roxolana ...
... Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , the Emissary of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand to the Porte between 1554 and 1562.9 In European reports and accounts , Hurrem was always referred to as Rossa , Rosselana , or Roxolana ...
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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