Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture

Download or read book Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture written by Galina I. Yermolenko and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays gathered here examine the legacy of Roxolana, a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who, from harem slave, became legal wife and advisor of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. The collection views Roxolana from Western and Eastern European perspectives, as source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. Also included are six European source texts, here translated into modern English for the first time.