Author : Galina I. Yermolenko
Release : 2010
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture by : Galina I. Yermolenko
Download or read book Roxolana in European Literature, History and Culture written by Galina I. Yermolenko. This book was released on 2010. 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.