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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... slaves of foreign ( predominantly Slavic and Caucasian ) origin acquired through child levy ( devşirme ) , slave trade , or as gifts.12 This slave elite - frequently referred to as the kullar or kul [ ' a slave of the sultan , educated ...
... slaves of foreign ( predominantly Slavic and Caucasian ) origin acquired through child levy ( devşirme ) , slave trade , or as gifts.12 This slave elite - frequently referred to as the kullar or kul [ ' a slave of the sultan , educated ...
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... slave hierarchy — and having reached the kullar , she was determined to solidify her privileged position by any means necessary . 12 On the structure of the Ottoman harem , government , and slave system , see Halil Inalcik , The Ottoman ...
... slave hierarchy — and having reached the kullar , she was determined to solidify her privileged position by any means necessary . 12 On the structure of the Ottoman harem , government , and slave system , see Halil Inalcik , The Ottoman ...
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... slave elite . Hurrem's harem salary— 2,000 aspers a day - was phenomenal ! For a comparison , a standard hasseki stipend in the sixteenth century was between 150 and 500 aspers per day , according to the Ottoman privy purse records.18 ...
... slave elite . Hurrem's harem salary— 2,000 aspers a day - was phenomenal ! For a comparison , a standard hasseki stipend in the sixteenth century was between 150 and 500 aspers per day , according to the Ottoman privy purse records.18 ...
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... slaves, and it. See the report of the Venetian bailo Marcantonio Donini in Alberi , Relazioni degli ambasciatori ... slave system , though amazing in its scale and significance , led to politically questionable results . She forever ...
... slaves, and it. See the report of the Venetian bailo Marcantonio Donini in Alberi , Relazioni degli ambasciatori ... slave system , though amazing in its scale and significance , led to politically questionable results . She forever ...
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Galina I. Yermolenko. West by the diplomats, travelers, and escaped slaves, and it persisted in European historical writings on the Ottoman Empire for several centuries. 75 André Clot, Suleiman the Magnificent, trans. Matthew J. Reisz ...
Galina I. Yermolenko. West by the diplomats, travelers, and escaped slaves, and it persisted in European historical writings on the Ottoman Empire for several centuries. 75 André Clot, Suleiman the Magnificent, trans. Matthew J. Reisz ...
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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