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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... early seventeenth century by samuel twardowski, member of the polish Embassy to the ottoman court in the years 1621 ... modern English translation of spandugino's chronicle De la origine deli Imperatori Ottomani (1538). 5 mahidevran's ...
... early seventeenth century by samuel twardowski, member of the polish Embassy to the ottoman court in the years 1621 ... modern English translation of spandugino's chronicle De la origine deli Imperatori Ottomani (1538). 5 mahidevran's ...
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... Early Modern Europe, eds anthony Grafton and ann Blair (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, 1990), 177. 9 All four letters were first published in Latin as Augerii Gislenii Turcicae legationes epistolae quatuor (paris, 1589) ...
... Early Modern Europe, eds anthony Grafton and ann Blair (philadelphia: university of pennsylvania press, 1990), 177. 9 All four letters were first published in Latin as Augerii Gislenii Turcicae legationes epistolae quatuor (paris, 1589) ...
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... early modern sources did not mention her name in connection with this story. Although it is difficult to account for Ibrahim's sudden demise, there are several possible explanations. one possibility is that ibrahim caused his own ...
... early modern sources did not mention her name in connection with this story. Although it is difficult to account for Ibrahim's sudden demise, there are several possible explanations. one possibility is that ibrahim caused his own ...
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... early modern sources, see n. 5 in 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 ...
... early modern sources, see n. 5 in 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 ...
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... soon to enfeeble the empire so disastrously.”75 Early modern ottoman historians, such as Çelebi, peçevi, and solakzade, portrayed Hurrem as a ruthless schemer pursuing illegitimate goals, and they never forgave her mustafa. at the same ...
... soon to enfeeble the empire so disastrously.”75 Early modern ottoman historians, such as Çelebi, peçevi, and solakzade, portrayed Hurrem as a ruthless schemer pursuing illegitimate goals, and they never forgave her mustafa. at the same ...
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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