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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... Western and ukrainian periodicals, such as Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, Ruthenica, Krytyka [Critique], Східний Світ [Eastern World], and Сходознавство [Eastern Studies]. He is currently working on two book ...
... Western and ukrainian periodicals, such as Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, Ruthenica, Krytyka [Critique], Східний Світ [Eastern World], and Сходознавство [Eastern Studies]. He is currently working on two book ...
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... Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi university, istanbul. she holds a ph.d. in Comparative literature from purdue university, with special focus on English and German literature as well as literary theory and criticism ...
... Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi university, istanbul. she holds a ph.d. in Comparative literature from purdue university, with special focus on English and German literature as well as literary theory and criticism ...
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... 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 historian gave 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 historian gave the ...
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... western part of ukraine around 1505.3 sometime between 1515 and 1520, when she was around 15 years of age, she was abducted by the Crimean tatars in one of their slave raids on ukraine. she most probably followed the route that ...
... western part of ukraine around 1505.3 sometime between 1515 and 1520, when she was around 15 years of age, she was abducted by the Crimean tatars in one of their slave raids on ukraine. she most probably followed the route that ...
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... western diplomats at the sublime porte, travelers to turkey, and escaped captives. the most notable of these sources were the reports of the Venetian ambassadors (baili), particularly by pietro Bragadino (1526), Bernardo navagero (1553) ...
... western diplomats at the sublime porte, travelers to turkey, and escaped captives. the most notable of these sources were the reports of the Venetian ambassadors (baili), particularly by pietro Bragadino (1526), Bernardo navagero (1553) ...
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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