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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... currently working on two book projects which examine the international slave trade in early modern Eastern Europe and the ottoman province of kefe (Caffa). Judy a. Hayden is associate professor of English and director Notes on Contributors.
... currently working on two book projects which examine the international slave trade in early modern Eastern Europe and the ottoman province of kefe (Caffa). Judy a. Hayden is associate professor of English and director Notes on Contributors.
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... 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 Slave to Legend, for ...
... 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 Slave to Legend, for ...
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... Slave to Legend, on which i have been working for several years. i therefore would like to express my gratitude to many people and organizations that helped me with shaping both my own book and this collection. the research for this ...
... Slave to Legend, on which i have been working for several years. i therefore would like to express my gratitude to many people and organizations that helped me with shaping both my own book and this collection. the research for this ...
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... slave raids on ukraine. she most probably followed the route that thousands of her compatriots followed in the sixteenth century—walking in long caravans of captives to the biggest slave market in the Black sea region, Caffa (kefe ...
... slave raids on ukraine. she most probably followed the route that thousands of her compatriots followed in the sixteenth century—walking in long caravans of captives to the biggest slave market in the Black sea region, Caffa (kefe ...
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... slaves of foreign (predominantly slavic and Caucasian) origin acquired through child levy (devşirme), slave trade, or as gifts.12 this slave elite—frequently referred to as the kullar or kul ['a slave of the sultan, educated in the ...
... slaves of foreign (predominantly slavic and Caucasian) origin acquired through child levy (devşirme), slave trade, or as gifts.12 this slave elite—frequently referred to as the kullar or kul ['a slave of the sultan, educated in the ...
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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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