Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureThis 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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Galina I. Yermolenko. : Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture Edited by GALINA. I. YERMOLENKO Roxolana in EuRopEan litERatuRE, HistoRy and CultuRE To my late. Cover.
Galina I. Yermolenko. : Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture Edited by GALINA. I. YERMOLENKO Roxolana in EuRopEan litERatuRE, HistoRy and CultuRE To my late. Cover.
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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments Note on Texts, Transliterations, and Spellings introduction 1 Galina Yermolenko PaRt 1 CRItICaL EssaYs 1 Roxolana in Europe Galina Yermolenko 2 East versus West: seraglio ...
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments Note on Texts, Transliterations, and Spellings introduction 1 Galina Yermolenko PaRt 1 CRItICaL EssaYs 1 Roxolana in Europe Galina Yermolenko 2 East versus West: seraglio ...
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He is 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 ...
He is 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 ...
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... with nabil matar, Three Plays about Muslim Women 1594–1631 for manchester university press; co-editing, with daniel Carey, Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe for ashgate's Hakluyt society Extra series; and, ...
... with nabil matar, Three Plays about Muslim Women 1594–1631 for manchester university press; co-editing, with daniel Carey, Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe for ashgate's Hakluyt society Extra series; and, ...
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any study of the West's relations with the harem must be in large part a study of the imagination.1 Roxolana, or Hurrem Sultan, the legendary wife of Suleiman I, the Magnificent (1520–1566), left a special trace in Europe's cultural ...
any study of the West's relations with the harem must be in large part a study of the imagination.1 Roxolana, or Hurrem Sultan, the legendary wife of Suleiman I, the Magnificent (1520–1566), left a special trace in Europe's cultural ...
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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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