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Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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