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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... Plot Summaries Appendix 2: Names Appendix 3: Chronology Bibliography Index 219 239 243 255 271 275 277 301 list of illustrations 1 Svltan Soleiman Chan; engraving by theodore Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture vi.
... Plot Summaries Appendix 2: Names Appendix 3: Chronology Bibliography Index 219 239 243 255 271 275 277 301 list of illustrations 1 Svltan Soleiman Chan; engraving by theodore Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture vi.
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... plot against mustafa in order to secure the throne for one of her sons, and that she was assisted in this plan by her son-in-law, Grand Vizier Rustem. Busbecq wrote in his Turkish Letters: “the turks [...] are convinced that it was by ...
... plot against mustafa in order to secure the throne for one of her sons, and that she was assisted in this plan by her son-in-law, Grand Vizier Rustem. Busbecq wrote in his Turkish Letters: “the turks [...] are convinced that it was by ...
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... plot summaries of six plays discussed or translated in this volume, a brief essay of the origins of the names and a chronology of Hurrem's life and major events of suleiman's reign. Galina yermolenko's essay opens part i to offer the ...
... plot summaries of six plays discussed or translated in this volume, a brief essay of the origins of the names and a chronology of Hurrem's life and major events of suleiman's reign. Galina yermolenko's essay opens part i to offer the ...
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... plots involving Roxolana that circulated in early modern European history and drama: 1) how she tricked soliman (suleiman) into marriage (desmares's Roxelane); 2) her extreme beauty and soliman's great love for her (de Vega's La Santa ...
... plots involving Roxolana that circulated in early modern European history and drama: 1) how she tricked soliman (suleiman) into marriage (desmares's Roxelane); 2) her extreme beauty and soliman's great love for her (de Vega's La Santa ...
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... 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 neoclassical atmosphere ...
... 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 neoclassical atmosphere ...
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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