Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture
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Act III
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Cemal Kafadar
Crimean Khanate
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Free Woman
Fulke Greville's Mustapha
Fulke Greville’s Mustapha
Galina Yermolenko
Generall Historie
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Grand Vizier
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Hurrem Sultan
Illustrious Bassa
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Imperial Harem
Jacques Callot
King Gustav III
Knolles's Generall Historie
Knolles’s Generall Historie
Lope De Vega
Muslim World
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Ogier Ghiselin De Busbecq
Osman's Dream
Osman’s Dream
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Sultana
Valide Sultan
Violated
Werke Und Briefe
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780754667612
- Weight: 725g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Oct 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Galina Yermolenko is Associate Professor of English at DeSales University. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Marquette University, and a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from Simferopol State University, Ukraine.
