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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... Chapter 1 of the present volume. 10 Cf. “donna di nazion russa” (Bragadino); “[donna] ... di nazione russa” (navagero); “sultana, ch'è di Russia” (trevisano). see alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 3: 102; 1: 74; 1 ...
... Chapter 1 of the present volume. 10 Cf. “donna di nazion russa” (Bragadino); “[donna] ... di nazione russa” (navagero); “sultana, ch'è di Russia” (trevisano). see alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 3: 102; 1: 74; 1 ...
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... Chapter 1 of the present volume. 46 Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, 11. 47 Cf. leslie peirce, “the Family as Faction: dynastic politics in the Reign of Süleyman,” Veinstein, Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, 110. during ...
... Chapter 1 of the present volume. 46 Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, 11. 47 Cf. leslie peirce, “the Family as Faction: dynastic politics in the Reign of Süleyman,” Veinstein, Soliman le Magnifique et son temps, 110. during ...
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... chapter places in a larger context the remaining essays that deal with culture-specific and time-specific images of Roxolana. The next two critical essays discuss the impact of the Roxolana figure on English history and drama. Claire ...
... chapter places in a larger context the remaining essays that deal with culture-specific and time-specific images of Roxolana. The next two critical essays discuss the impact of the Roxolana figure on English history and drama. Claire ...
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... Chapter 1 of this collection. For a comparison, Clarence Rouillard distinguishes four basic plots in the “cycle of soliman”: the soliman-mustapha story; the soliman-ibrahim story; the soliman-Roxelane story; and the soliman-Bayezidselim ...
... Chapter 1 of this collection. For a comparison, Clarence Rouillard distinguishes four basic plots in the “cycle of soliman”: the soliman-mustapha story; the soliman-ibrahim story; the soliman-Roxelane story; and the soliman-Bayezidselim ...
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... 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 titian's portrait of Rosa. a copy of this portrait is featured on the cover of the present volume ...
... 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 titian's portrait of Rosa. a copy of this portrait is featured on the cover of the present volume ...
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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