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Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

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Full Title

Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

Author(s)

Yermolenko, Galina I, Dr

Edition
ISBN

9781409476115, 9780754667612

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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