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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... slave elite. Hurrem's harem 14 Cf. navagero: “ ... molto bene conosce la natura del Gran-signore,” in alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 1: 74–5. 15 J. m. Rogers and R. m. Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition ...
... slave elite. Hurrem's harem 14 Cf. navagero: “ ... molto bene conosce la natura del Gran-signore,” in alberi, Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato, 1: 74–5. 15 J. m. Rogers and R. m. Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, exhibition ...
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... slave hierarchy, having broken practically every article of the imperial harem protocol to her benefit. In 1533 or 1534—the exact date is unknown, but possibly after the death of suleiman's mother, valide sultan Hafsa, in 1533—suleiman ...
... slave hierarchy, having broken practically every article of the imperial harem protocol to her benefit. In 1533 or 1534—the exact date is unknown, but possibly after the death of suleiman's mother, valide sultan Hafsa, in 1533—suleiman ...
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... slave system, though amazing in its scale and significance, led to politically questionable results. She forever changed the balance of power within the ottoman seraglio, having introduced “the sultanate of women,” or a pattern of ...
... slave system, though amazing in its scale and significance, led to politically questionable results. She forever changed the balance of power within the ottoman seraglio, having introduced “the sultanate of women,” or a pattern of ...
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... slaves, and it persisted in European historical writings on the ottoman Empire for several centuries. the Collection The essays and translations selected for this collection largely reflect the evolution of the Roxolana image in Western ...
... slaves, and it persisted in European historical writings on the ottoman Empire for several centuries. the Collection The essays and translations selected for this collection largely reflect the evolution of the Roxolana image in Western ...
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... slave, a muslim convert, and a powerful asian queen, Roxolana stands at the crossroads of these concerns. a crosscultural and transnational figure, she represents the Exotic Female Other par excellence. the collection also brings to the ...
... slave, a muslim convert, and a powerful asian queen, Roxolana stands at the crossroads of these concerns. a crosscultural and transnational figure, she represents the Exotic Female Other par excellence. the collection also brings to 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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