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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... century—walking in long caravans of captives to the biggest slave market in the Black sea region, Caffa (kefe; kaffa; presently the city of Feodosia), on the Crimean coast, whence the captives were shipped to other mediterranean slave ...
... century—walking in long caravans of captives to the biggest slave market in the Black sea region, Caffa (kefe; kaffa; presently the city of Feodosia), on the Crimean coast, whence the captives were shipped to other mediterranean slave ...
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... century was between 150 and 500 aspers per day, according to the ottoman privy purse records.18 one can say that suleiman put Hurrem outside and above the slave hierarchy, having broken practically every article of the imperial harem ...
... century was between 150 and 500 aspers per day, according to the ottoman privy purse records.18 one can say that suleiman put Hurrem outside and above the slave hierarchy, having broken practically every article of the imperial harem ...
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... ottomana alcuna donna che avesse maggior autorità.” alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 1: 74–5. translation mine. sultans, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. she was afterwards Introduction 15.
... ottomana alcuna donna che avesse maggior autorità.” alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 1: 74–5. translation mine. sultans, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. she was afterwards Introduction 15.
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... centuries. the Collection The essays and translations selected for this collection largely reflect the evolution of the Roxolana image in Western and Eastern Europe from the mid-sixteenth century to the present. The volume is divided ...
... centuries. the Collection The essays and translations selected for this collection largely reflect the evolution of the Roxolana image in Western and Eastern Europe from the mid-sixteenth century to the present. The volume is divided ...
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... century to the late twentieth century and the present. oleksander Halenko's chapter discusses the emergence of a romantic image of Roxolana during nineteenth-century national revival in ukraine. Halenko connects this phenomenon with the ...
... century to the late twentieth century and the present. oleksander Halenko's chapter discusses the emergence of a romantic image of Roxolana during nineteenth-century national revival in ukraine. Halenko connects this phenomenon with the ...
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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