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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... fears of Mustafa were not unreasonable , as she had a great stake in this matter . Had Mustafa ascended to the throne , all Hurrem's sons would have most likely been executed , according to the fratricide custom of the Ottoman dynasty ...
... fears of Mustafa were not unreasonable , as she had a great stake in this matter . Had Mustafa ascended to the throne , all Hurrem's sons would have most likely been executed , according to the fratricide custom of the Ottoman dynasty ...
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... fear that one of his sons would overthrow him : his own father , Selim I , reportedly poisoned his grandfather Bayazid ( Bajazet ) II to " catch the nearest way " to the throne . There had been numerous examples in Ottoman history when ...
... fear that one of his sons would overthrow him : his own father , Selim I , reportedly poisoned his grandfather Bayazid ( Bajazet ) II to " catch the nearest way " to the throne . There had been numerous examples in Ottoman history when ...
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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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