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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... court , and because the essays and translations in the present collection refer to these famous stories in various ways , 1 Ruth Yeazell , Harems of the Mind : Passages of Western Art and Literature ( New Haven , CT : Yale University ...
... court , and because the essays and translations in the present collection refer to these famous stories in various ways , 1 Ruth Yeazell , Harems of the Mind : Passages of Western Art and Literature ( New Haven , CT : Yale University ...
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... court in the years 1621–1622 . Twardowski heard , at the 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 ...
... court in the years 1621–1622 . Twardowski heard , at the 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 ...
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... court , and the capital , such as the plague epidemic in Istanbul , various rumors about the courtiers , or their children's ailments and treatments.15 Their correspondence is a living proof of their devotion for each other . In one ...
... court , and the capital , such as the plague epidemic in Istanbul , various rumors about the courtiers , or their children's ailments and treatments.15 Their correspondence is a living proof of their devotion for each other . In one ...
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... court officials , members of the kullar , and would thus graduate from the harem . Yet , as one writer put it , when Hurrem burst into the imperial harem , everyone graduated very quickly.24 Hurrem's long - time rival , Mahidevran , was ...
... court officials , members of the kullar , and would thus graduate from the harem . Yet , as one writer put it , when Hurrem burst into the imperial harem , everyone graduated very quickly.24 Hurrem's long - time rival , Mahidevran , was ...
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... court hate her and her children likewise , but because the Grand Turk loves her very much , no one dares to speak , and always every one speaks ill of her and of her children , and well of the first - born [ i.e. , Mustafa ] and of his ...
... court hate her and her children likewise , but because the Grand Turk loves her very much , no one dares to speak , and always every one speaks ill of her and of her children , and well of the first - born [ i.e. , Mustafa ] and of his ...
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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