Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureDr Galina 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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... early modern encyclopedia and its origins and evolution in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century France . Oleksander Halenko is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ...
... Early Plays of Aphra Behn will be out from Rodopi Press shortly . She had co ... modern travel narratives and scientific discourse . Claire Jowitt is ... Early Modern Europe for Ashgate's Hakluyt Society Extra Series ; and ...
... early modern Ukrainian and Russian literary and cultural relations with the West , as well as early modern travel and European perceptions of the early modern Ottoman Empire and slave system . She has published articles in Spenser ...
... early modern Ukraine and for arranging a meeting for me with several researchers at the Institute of History of Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv . Halenko also gave me his excellent reader comments on my ...
... modern variants . ' Transliterations This volume follows modern Turkish orthography for words and names of Turkish ... early modern and modern versions and spellings of the names used in this volume , see Appendix 2 . ... 9 4 See ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Critical Essays | 21 |
Roxolana in Europe | 23 |
East versus West Seraglio Queens Politics and Sexuality in Thomas Heywoods Fair Maid of the West Parts I and II | 57 |
The Tragedy of Roxolana in the Court of Charles II | 71 |
Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas | 89 |
How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine | 109 |
Roxolanas Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight | 125 |
Translations | 163 |
Gonzalo de Illescas The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History 1606 | 165 |
Lope de Vega The Holy League 1603 | 171 |
Prospero della Rovere Bonarelli Soliman 1620 | 195 |
Jean Desmares Roxelana 1643 | 217 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Giangir or the Rejected Throne 1748 | 237 |
Denys Sichynsky Roksoliana Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue 1911 | 241 |
Roxolana in Turkish Literature ReWriting the Ever Elusive Woman of Power and Desire | 141 |