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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... wife of Suleiman I, the Magnificent (1520–1566), left a special trace in Europe's cultural memory. the impact of this asian queen on the Western imagination is comparable only to that of Cleopatra. “the greatest empresse of the East ...
... wife of Suleiman I, the Magnificent (1520–1566), left a special trace in Europe's cultural memory. the impact of this asian queen on the Western imagination is comparable only to that of Cleopatra. “the greatest empresse of the East ...
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... wives, was designed to protect the ruling dynasty from the influence of one woman or her clan. Hurrem however remained in ... wife and hold her as such in his seraglio, but he did not even want to know any other woman: something that had ...
... wives, was designed to protect the ruling dynasty from the influence of one woman or her clan. Hurrem however remained in ... wife and hold her as such in his seraglio, but he did not even want to know any other woman: something that had ...
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... wife was commonly reputed to retain his affection by love-charms and magic arts.”32 in Hurrem's defense, it must be said that the accusations of her as a schemer and witch resulted from her ambiguous status in the harem. as leslie ...
... wife was commonly reputed to retain his affection by love-charms and magic arts.”32 in Hurrem's defense, it must be said that the accusations of her as a schemer and witch resulted from her ambiguous status in the harem. as leslie ...
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... wife in a domed mausoleum, close to the Süleymaniye mosque, which he constructed and appointed as his own burial place.71 Hurrem was the first woman in Ottoman harem history to have been honored in that way. The Sultan lived for eight ...
... wife in a domed mausoleum, close to the Süleymaniye mosque, which he constructed and appointed as his own burial place.71 Hurrem was the first woman in Ottoman harem history to have been honored in that way. The Sultan lived for eight ...
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... wife.” one can also view soliman here as a new 80 For the list of such sources, see n. 5 in Chapter 1 of the present volume. 81 this is particularly evident in the Venetian senate scene, at the end of act i, where the doges admire ...
... wife.” one can also view soliman here as a new 80 For the list of such sources, see n. 5 in Chapter 1 of the present volume. 81 this is particularly evident in the Venetian senate scene, at the end of act i, where the doges admire ...
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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