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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... Mustafa. in 1520, suleiman ascended the throne as the tenth ottoman sultan. in 1521, Hurrem gave birth to her first son Mehmed. From that point on, her career as a royal concubine took a rather unusual turn. the ottoman harem system ...
... Mustafa. in 1520, suleiman ascended the throne as the tenth ottoman sultan. in 1521, Hurrem gave birth to her first son Mehmed. From that point on, her career as a royal concubine took a rather unusual turn. the ottoman harem system ...
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... mustafa to the province of manisa, in eastern turkey.25 in the ottoman royal family tradition, a sultan's concubine was to remain in the harem only until her son came of age (around 16 years old or so), after which he would be sent away ...
... mustafa to the province of manisa, in eastern turkey.25 in the ottoman royal family tradition, a sultan's concubine was to remain in the harem only until her son came of age (around 16 years old or so), after which he would be sent away ...
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... Mustafa] and of his mother [i.e., mahidevran], who has been repudiated.”30 the turks believed that Hurrem held her astonishing power over suleiman through witchcraft, and they called herziadi, or witch. in Bassano's words, suleiman ...
... Mustafa] and of his mother [i.e., mahidevran], who has been repudiated.”30 the turks believed that Hurrem held her astonishing power over suleiman through witchcraft, and they called herziadi, or witch. in Bassano's words, suleiman ...
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... mustafa, was favored by both the court and the army as the 48 see peirce, The Imperial Harem and “Gender and sexual propriety in ottoman Royal Women's patronage,” Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, ed. d ...
... mustafa, was favored by both the court and the army as the 48 see peirce, The Imperial Harem and “Gender and sexual propriety in ottoman Royal Women's patronage,” Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies, ed. d ...
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... mustafa at the order of his own father—constitutes one of the most dramatic and most frequently described moments of ottoman history. in retrospect, the entire blame for the fall of mustafa was put on Hurrem sultan and Rustem pasha. the ...
... mustafa at the order of his own father—constitutes one of the most dramatic and most frequently described moments of ottoman history. in retrospect, the entire blame for the fall of mustafa was put on Hurrem sultan and Rustem pasha. the ...
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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