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Full Title | Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture |
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Author(s) | Yermolenko, Galina I, Dr |
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ISBN | 9781409476115, 9780754667612 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Format | PDF and EPUB |
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Full Title | Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture |
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Author(s) | Yermolenko, Galina I, Dr |
Edition | |
ISBN | 9781409476115, 9780754667612 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Format | PDF and EPUB |
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