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 ...
... 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 ...
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... century was between 150 and 500 aspers per day , according to the Ottoman privy purse records.18 18 Peirce , The Imperial Harem , 127-8 . One can say that Suleiman put Hurrem outside and above the slave hierarchy , having broken ...
... century was between 150 and 500 aspers per day , according to the Ottoman privy purse records.18 18 Peirce , The Imperial Harem , 127-8 . One can say that Suleiman put Hurrem outside and above the slave hierarchy , having broken ...
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... centuries . She was afterwards blamed for having created " the system of rule by favorites and courtiers which was soon to enfeeble the empire so disastrously . " 75 Early modern Ottoman historians , such as Çelebi , Peçevi , and ...
... centuries . She was afterwards blamed for having created " the system of rule by favorites and courtiers which was soon to enfeeble the empire so disastrously . " 75 Early modern Ottoman historians , such as Çelebi , Peçevi , and ...
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... century to the present. The volume is divided into two parts: the first featuring seven critical essays, and the second, six excerpts and texts from never-before- translated works concerning Roxolana as a historical person or dramatic ...
... century to the present. The volume is divided into two parts: the first featuring seven critical essays, and the second, six excerpts and texts from never-before- translated works concerning Roxolana as a historical person or dramatic ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
Contents
Seraglio Queens Politics and Sexuality in Thomas | |
The Tragedy of Roxolana in the Court of Charles II | |
Roxolana in German Baroque and Enlightenment Dramas | |
How a Turkish Empress Became a Champion of Ukraine | |
Roxolanas Memoirs as a Garden of Intertextual Delight | |
ReWriting the Ever Elusive Woman | |
Gonzalo de Illescas The Second Part of the Pontifical and Catholic History 1606 | |
Jean Desmares Roxelana 1643 | |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Giangir or the Rejected Throne 1748 | |
Denys Sichynsky Roksoliana Historical Opera in Three Acts with a Prologue | |
Plot Summaries | |
Names | |
Index | |
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