Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture - Galina I. Yermolenko

Edited by Galina I. Yermolenko, DeSales University, USAThis 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.  

tytuł oryginału

Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

data wydania

październik 2010 (data przybliżona)

ISBN

9780754667612

liczba stron

334

słowa kluczowe

roksolana,

język

angielski