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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... Woman of power and desire Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu PaRt 2 tRansLatIons 8 Gonzalo de illescas, The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606) Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto 9 lope de Vega, The Holy League ...
... Woman of power and desire Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu PaRt 2 tRansLatIons 8 Gonzalo de illescas, The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History (1606) Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto 9 lope de Vega, The Holy League ...
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... woman” in his famous Generall Historie of the 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 ...
... woman” in his famous Generall Historie of the 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 ...
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Galina I. Yermolenko. it is hard to say what exactly propelled this young woman to the summit of ottoman power. after all, about three hundred other beautiful women in suleiman's harem vied for their master's attention. according to the ...
Galina I. Yermolenko. it is hard to say what exactly propelled this young woman to the summit of ottoman power. after all, about three hundred other beautiful women in suleiman's harem vied for their master's attention. according to the ...
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... woman from Russia, called Roxalana, and there has been great feasting. the ceremony took place in the seraglio, and the festivities have been beyond all record. there was a public procession of the presents. at night the principal ...
... woman from Russia, called Roxalana, and there has been great feasting. the ceremony took place in the seraglio, and the festivities have been beyond all record. there was a public procession of the presents. at night the principal ...
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... woman or her clan. Hurrem however remained in the harem with her hunchback son Jihangir, even after her three other sons—mehmed, selim, and Bayazid—left istanbul to govern their provinces.26 moreover, in 1536 Hurrem transferred the ...
... woman or her clan. Hurrem however remained in the harem with her hunchback son Jihangir, even after her three other sons—mehmed, selim, and Bayazid—left istanbul to govern their provinces.26 moreover, in 1536 Hurrem transferred 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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