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Roxolana in European literature, history and culture

The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave, became legal wife and advisor of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The collection views Roxolana from Western and Eastern European perspectives, as source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. Also included are six European source texts, here translated into modern English for the first time
eBook, English, ©2010
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Literary collections
1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) : illustrations
9781409403746, 9780754667612, 1409403742, 0754667618
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Roxolana in Europe / Galina Yermolenko
East versus West: seraglio queens, politics, and sexuality in Thomas Heywood's Fair maid of the West, parts I and II / Claire Jowitt
The tragedy of Roxolana in the court of Charles II / Judy A. Hayden
Roxolana in German baroque and enlightenment dramas / Beate Allert
How a Turkish empress became a champion of Ukraine / Oleksander Halenko
Roxolana's memoirs as a garden of intertextual delight / Maryna Romanets
Roxolana in Turkish literature: re-writing the ever elusive woman of power and desire / Özlem Öğüt Yazıcıoğlu
Gonzalo de Illescas, The second part of the pontifical and Catholic history (1606) / Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto
Lope de Vega, The holy league (1603) / Foreword and translation from Spanish by Ana Pinto
Prospero della Rovere Bonarelli, Soliman (1620) / Foreword by Galina Yermolenko, translation from Italian by Virginia Picchietti
Jean Desmares, Roxelana (1643) / Foreword by Galina Yermolenko, translation from French by Andrzej Dziedzic
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giangir, or the rejected throne (1748) / Foreword and translation from German by Beate Allert
Denys Sichynsky, Roksoliana; historical opera in three acts with a prologue (1911) / Foreword and translation from Ukrainian by Galina Yermolenko