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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... Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , has my thanks for providing his expertise on the history of Ottoman slave trade in early modern Ukraine and for arranging a meeting for me with several researchers at the ...
... Ukraine at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , has my thanks for providing his expertise on the history of Ottoman slave trade in early modern Ukraine and for arranging a meeting for me with several researchers at the ...
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... my sister Luidmila Yermolenko, for her assistance with the Ukrainian research and her unconditional love. Galina Yermolenko Hellertown, PA August 2009 Note on Texts , Transliterations , and Spellings Foreign Language.
... my sister Luidmila Yermolenko, for her assistance with the Ukrainian research and her unconditional love. Galina Yermolenko Hellertown, PA August 2009 Note on Texts , Transliterations , and Spellings Foreign Language.
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... Ukrainian and Russian bibliographic citations ( in the footnotes to Chapters 1 , 5 , 6 , and Bibliography ) follow the Library of Congress ( LC ) system . In the main text of Chapters 1 , 5 , and 6 , the LC conventions have been ...
... Ukrainian and Russian bibliographic citations ( in the footnotes to Chapters 1 , 5 , 6 , and Bibliography ) follow the Library of Congress ( LC ) system . In the main text of Chapters 1 , 5 , and 6 , the LC conventions have been ...
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... Ukrainian initial Я , 10- , ε- appear as ya- , yu- , ye- ( e.g. , Yuri ) ; final -uŭ , -iů ( in personal names ) are rendered as -y , -i ( e.g. Sichynsky , Yuri ) ; and -ď appears as -i ( in Kyiv ) . Ukrainian place names are spelled in ...
... Ukrainian initial Я , 10- , ε- appear as ya- , yu- , ye- ( e.g. , Yuri ) ; final -uŭ , -iů ( in personal names ) are rendered as -y , -i ( e.g. Sichynsky , Yuri ) ; and -ď appears as -i ( in Kyiv ) . Ukrainian place names are spelled in ...
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... Ukraine. The collection attempts to account for Roxolana's unwavering appeal across the continent by probing into European attitudes and ideological biases in relation to the Ottoman Other and the Female Other. Because most of what was ...
... Ukraine. The collection attempts to account for Roxolana's unwavering appeal across the continent by probing into European attitudes and ideological biases in relation to the Ottoman Other and the Female Other. Because most of what was ...
Contents
Seraglio Queens Politics and Sexuality in Thomas | |
The Tragedy of Roxolana in the Court of Charles II | |
Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas | |
How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine | |
Roxolanas Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight | |
ReWriting the Ever Elusive Woman | |
Gonzalo de Illescas The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History 1606 | |
Jean Desmares Roxelana 1643 | |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Giangir or the Rejected Throne 1748 | |
Denys Sichynsky Roksoliana Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue | |
Plot Summaries | |
Names | |
Index | |
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