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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... Mustapha's actions to ask Ebussuûd, the Şeyhülislam, for a fetvā justifying the execution of mustapha. [ ... ] this fetvā was in Rüstem Paşa's hands when he set out for eastern Anatolia in August 1553.” Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the ...
... Mustapha's actions to ask Ebussuûd, the Şeyhülislam, for a fetvā justifying the execution of mustapha. [ ... ] this fetvā was in Rüstem Paşa's hands when he set out for eastern Anatolia in August 1553.” Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the ...
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... Mustapha und Zeangir (1761), and Gotthold Lessing's unfinished Giangir oder der verschmähte Thron (1748). The first two plays elaborated on the ibrahim murder, while the latter two drew on the mustapha murder. allert compares and ...
... Mustapha und Zeangir (1761), and Gotthold Lessing's unfinished Giangir oder der verschmähte Thron (1748). The first two plays elaborated on the ibrahim murder, while the latter two drew on the mustapha murder. allert compares and ...
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... mustapha (Bonarelli's Il Solimano) and the ensuing suicide of mustapha's half brother Jihangir (lessing's Giangir).79 78 the titles of these works are translated here into English. 79 three of these plots are rooted in the events of ...
... mustapha (Bonarelli's Il Solimano) and the ensuing suicide of mustapha's half brother Jihangir (lessing's Giangir).79 78 the titles of these works are translated here into English. 79 three of these plots are rooted in the events of ...
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... mustapha-Roxolana plot, gives the readers an opportunity to witness a shift in the early modern dramatic representations of Roxolana. Here she emerges as a genuinely tragic heroine. the reader will also be able to experience the ...
... mustapha-Roxolana plot, gives the readers an opportunity to witness a shift in the early modern dramatic representations of Roxolana. Here she emerges as a genuinely tragic heroine. the reader will also be able to experience the ...
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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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