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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... woman, which it considered unnatural and harmful.”29 the italian traveler luigi Bassano wrote in his I costumi et i ... woman left the harem to follow her adult son to a province. in Hurrem, however, “these two functions were collapsed ...
... woman, which it considered unnatural and harmful.”29 the italian traveler luigi Bassano wrote in his I costumi et i ... woman left the harem to follow her adult son to a province. in Hurrem, however, “these two functions were collapsed ...
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... woman in Ottoman harem history to have been honored in that way. The Sultan lived for eight more years—eight unhappy years filled with suffering from gout and arthritis, and from an incurable ulcer, or gangrene, on his leg.72 there is ...
... woman in Ottoman harem history to have been honored in that way. The Sultan lived for eight more years—eight unhappy years filled with suffering from gout and arthritis, and from an incurable ulcer, or gangrene, on his leg.72 there is ...
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... woman freeing ukrainian Cossacks from turkish captivity. Halenko's essay also throws an interesting light on the perception of turkish captivity by early modern ukrainians: namely, the different gender expectations and models of ...
... woman freeing ukrainian Cossacks from turkish captivity. Halenko's essay also throws an interesting light on the perception of turkish captivity by early modern ukrainians: namely, the different gender expectations and models of ...
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... woman poses for him. the play also manifests the importance, for the spanish cultural memory, of the Battle of lepanto and spain's leading role in the Western Christendom's victory over the turks. Virginia picchietti's translation of ...
... woman poses for him. the play also manifests the importance, for the spanish cultural memory, of the Battle of lepanto and spain's leading role in the Western Christendom's victory over the turks. Virginia picchietti's translation of ...
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... woman of Eastern European descent, a former 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 ...
... woman of Eastern European descent, a former 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 ...
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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