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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... Throne ( 1748 ) Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert 239 13 Denys Sichynsky , Roksoliana ; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue ( 1911 ) 243 Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina Yermolenko Appendix ...
... Throne ( 1748 ) Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert 239 13 Denys Sichynsky , Roksoliana ; Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue ( 1911 ) 243 Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina Yermolenko Appendix ...
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... 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 operated on the principle " one ...
... 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 operated on the principle " one ...
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... throne in September 1520 , Ibrahim quickly made an illustrious career as a statesman , rising from the master of the inner chamber to the high court falconer , and to the Grand Vizier within the first three years of Suleiman's rule 34 ...
... throne in September 1520 , Ibrahim quickly made an illustrious career as a statesman , rising from the master of the inner chamber to the high court falconer , and to the Grand Vizier within the first three years of Suleiman's rule 34 ...
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... 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 the calumnies of Roostem and the spells of ...
... 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 the calumnies of Roostem and the spells of ...
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... throne , all Hurrem's sons would have most likely been executed , according to the fratricide custom of the Ottoman dynasty , which required that all brothers of the new sultan be executed to avoid feuds among royal siblings . And yet ...
... throne , all Hurrem's sons would have most likely been executed , according to the fratricide custom of the Ottoman dynasty , which required that all brothers of the new sultan be executed to avoid feuds among royal siblings . And yet ...
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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