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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... beautiful Circassian concubine mahidevran (Gulbahar, Gulbehar, or Gulfrem, in other sources),5 the mother of Suleiman's first-born son Mustafa. in 1520, suleiman ascended the throne as the tenth ottoman sultan. in 1521, Hurrem gave ...
... beautiful Circassian concubine mahidevran (Gulbahar, Gulbehar, or Gulfrem, in other sources),5 the mother of Suleiman's first-born son Mustafa. in 1520, suleiman ascended the throne as the tenth ottoman sultan. in 1521, Hurrem gave ...
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... 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 modest.11 yet, her irresistible charm and playfulness ...
... 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 modest.11 yet, her irresistible charm and playfulness ...
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... beautiful young concubines in his harem, arguing that their unused beauty was being wasted away. traditionally, those concubines who did not become intimate with the sultan would eventually be married off to high-ranking court officials ...
... beautiful young concubines in his harem, arguing that their unused beauty was being wasted away. traditionally, those concubines who did not become intimate with the sultan would eventually be married off to high-ranking court officials ...
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... beautiful gardens. He also endowed the construction of numerous charitable and state structures, including mosques, imarets (public soup kitchens), bridges, and aqueducts. 37 His sudden execution on march 15, 1536, was conducted ...
... beautiful gardens. He also endowed the construction of numerous charitable and state structures, including mosques, imarets (public soup kitchens), bridges, and aqueducts. 37 His sudden execution on march 15, 1536, was conducted ...
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... beautiful woman poses for him. the play also manifests the importance, for the spanish cultural memory, of the Battle of lepanto and spain's leading role in the Western Christendom's victory over the turks. Virginia picchietti's ...
... beautiful woman poses for him. the play also manifests the importance, for the spanish cultural memory, of the Battle of lepanto and spain's leading role in the Western Christendom's victory over the turks. Virginia picchietti's ...
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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