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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... dramas Beate Allert 5 How a turkish Empress Became a Champion of ukraine Oleksander Halenko 6 Roxolana's memoirs as a Garden of intertextual delight Maryna Romanets 7 Roxolana in turkish literature: Re-Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of ...
... dramas Beate Allert 5 How a turkish Empress Became a Champion of ukraine Oleksander Halenko 6 Roxolana's memoirs as a Garden of intertextual delight Maryna Romanets 7 Roxolana in turkish literature: Re-Writing the Ever Elusive Woman of ...
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... Drama and Gender Politics, 1589–1642: Real and Imagined Worlds (manchester university press, 2003), Pirates? The Politics of Plunder 1550–1650 (palgrave, 2007), and The Culture of Piracy 1580–1630: Literature and Seaborne Crime (ashgate ...
... Drama and Gender Politics, 1589–1642: Real and Imagined Worlds (manchester university press, 2003), Pirates? The Politics of Plunder 1550–1650 (palgrave, 2007), and The Culture of Piracy 1580–1630: Literature and Seaborne Crime (ashgate ...
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... dramatic event took place in the imperial harem that would be afterwards connected with Hurrem's intrigues. the Grand Vizier ibrahim pasha (1493–1536), suleiman's bosom friend and favorite courtier, was suddenly executed in the imperial ...
... dramatic event took place in the imperial harem that would be afterwards connected with Hurrem's intrigues. the Grand Vizier ibrahim pasha (1493–1536), suleiman's bosom friend and favorite courtier, was suddenly executed in the imperial ...
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... dramatic and most frequently described moments of ottoman history. in retrospect, the entire blame for the fall of ... drama emerged in most European accounts of the tragedy: that suleiman was watching the cruel spectacle from behind a ...
... dramatic and most frequently described moments of ottoman history. in retrospect, the entire blame for the fall of ... drama emerged in most European accounts of the tragedy: that suleiman was watching the cruel spectacle from behind a ...
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... dramatic character. in addition, three appendices provide valuable material related to the scope of this volume: the plot summaries of six plays discussed or translated in this volume, a brief essay of the origins of the names and a ...
... dramatic character. in addition, three appendices provide valuable material related to the scope of this volume: the plot summaries of six plays discussed or translated in this volume, a brief essay of the origins of the names and a ...
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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