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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... Women's studies at the university of tampa. she has published extensively on women's writing, particularly women's writing and culture in seventeenth-century England. in addition to several book articles, she published essays in ...
... Women's studies at the university of tampa. she has published extensively on women's writing, particularly women's writing and culture in seventeenth-century England. in addition to several book articles, she published essays in ...
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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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... Women's Bazaar'], a slave market in istanbul, and, according to a legend, was purchased for the imperial harem by ibrahim pasha, the close friend of the young Crown prince suleiman.4 ibrahim presented her to suleiman, probably before ...
... Women's Bazaar'], a slave market in istanbul, and, according to a legend, was purchased for the imperial harem by ibrahim pasha, the close friend of the young Crown prince suleiman.4 ibrahim presented her to suleiman, probably before ...
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... Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (new york: oxford university press, 1993), 58–9. 7 there is a great deal of disagreement in Western sources, both old and recent, about the number and succession of children that suleiman had ...
... Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (new york: oxford university press, 1993), 58–9. 7 there is a great deal of disagreement in Western sources, both old and recent, about the number and succession of children that suleiman had ...
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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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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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