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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... Turkish Letters and in the Genoese Bank journal, spandounes's reaction was total surprise: “... this was an unheard-of event for a sultan.” see spandounes, On the Origin of the Ottoman Emperors, 70. 21 The Turkish Letters of Ogier ...
... Turkish Letters and in the Genoese Bank journal, spandounes's reaction was total surprise: “... this was an unheard-of event for a sultan.” see spandounes, On the Origin of the Ottoman Emperors, 70. 21 The Turkish Letters of Ogier ...
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... listy Roxolany do Zygmunta augusta,” Kwartalnik historyczny 10 (1896): 113–4; and my essay, “Roxolana: 'the Greatest Empresse of the East',” 240–41. the turkish public was quite troubled by such drastic, unprecedented Introduction 7.
... listy Roxolany do Zygmunta augusta,” Kwartalnik historyczny 10 (1896): 113–4; and my essay, “Roxolana: 'the Greatest Empresse of the East',” 240–41. the turkish public was quite troubled by such drastic, unprecedented Introduction 7.
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... Turkish Letters, the rumor that Roxolana practiced witchcraft to entice suleiman. While describing the turkish belief that the hyena had a great potency in love, Busbecq mentioned several hyena owners in istanbul who were reluctant to ...
... Turkish Letters, the rumor that Roxolana practiced witchcraft to entice suleiman. While describing the turkish belief that the hyena had a great potency in love, Busbecq mentioned several hyena owners in istanbul who were reluctant to ...
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... Turkish Letters: “the turks [...] are convinced that it was by the calumnies of Roostem and the spells of Roxolana, who was in ill repute as a practiser of witchcraft, that the sultan was so estranged from his son as to entertain the ...
... Turkish Letters: “the turks [...] are convinced that it was by the calumnies of Roostem and the spells of Roxolana, who was in ill repute as a practiser of witchcraft, that the sultan was so estranged from his son as to entertain the ...
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... Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, 32–3; Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, 21. 62 published in E. J. W. Gibb, A History of Ottoman Poetry, ed. Edward G. Browne, 6 vols (london: luzac & Co., 1900–1909; rpt. 1958–1967) ...
... Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, 32–3; Rogers and Ward, Süleyman the Magnificent, 21. 62 published in E. J. W. Gibb, A History of Ottoman Poetry, ed. Edward G. Browne, 6 vols (london: luzac & Co., 1900–1909; rpt. 1958–1967) ...
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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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