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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... Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600 (kyiv, 1998). His other publications include chapters and articles in several scholarly collections, as well as in Western and ukrainian periodicals, such as Journal of Economic and Social ...
... Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age, 1300–1600 (kyiv, 1998). His other publications include chapters and articles in several scholarly collections, as well as in Western and ukrainian periodicals, such as Journal of Economic and Social ...
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... ottoman Empire and slave system. she has published articles in Spenser Studies, Muslim World, and National Social Science Journal. Her editing of the current collection sprang from her work on an on-going book project, Roxolana: From ...
... ottoman Empire and slave system. she has published articles in Spenser Studies, Muslim World, and National Social Science Journal. Her editing of the current collection sprang from her work on an on-going book project, Roxolana: From ...
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... Turks (1603). most other historians were equally harsh to Roxolana, often portraying her as a witch and ruthless schemer whose tight grip over suleiman, and her insidious harem intrigues, led to the decline of the ottoman Empire ...
... Turks (1603). most other historians were equally harsh to Roxolana, often portraying her as a witch and ruthless schemer whose tight grip over suleiman, and her insidious harem intrigues, led to the decline of the ottoman Empire ...
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... Ottoman Empire (new york: oxford university press, 1993), 58–9. 7 there is a great deal of disagreement in Western sources, both old and recent, about the number and succession of children that suleiman had by Hurrem. i follow peirce's ...
... Ottoman Empire (new york: oxford university press, 1993), 58–9. 7 there is a great deal of disagreement in Western sources, both old and recent, about the number and succession of children that suleiman had by Hurrem. i follow peirce's ...
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... ottoman power. after all, about three hundred other beautiful women in ... empire as a captive in a slave market— Galicia. thus the italian word Rossa ... ottoman harem, government, and slave system, see Halil inalcik, The Ottoman Empire ...
... ottoman power. after all, about three hundred other beautiful women in ... empire as a captive in a slave market— Galicia. thus the italian word Rossa ... ottoman harem, government, and slave system, see Halil inalcik, The Ottoman Empire ...
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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