The Imperial Harem
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The Imperial Harem
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Author : Leslie P. Peirce
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1993
The Imperial Harem written by Leslie P. Peirce and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.
Tales From Ancient China S Imperial Harem
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Author : Xiaoyan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Tales From Ancient China S Imperial Harem written by Xiaoyan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with China categories.
This book is more than a series of tales about intrigues, illicit love affairs, jealousies, and murders committed by the various women who populated the harems of China's many emperors. It is a unique retelling of major events in China's more than 3,000-year-old history as seen through the eyes of these courtesans of the rear palace. Each emperor had thousands of beauties at his beck and call. Most of them, separated at a young age from their families, lived in the rear palace in loneliness and seclusion. A few, however, wielded great power or even gained supremacy over the imperial court. Their stories vividly portray the social customs and palace life in ancient China, and give new insights into the important role of women in Chinese history.
The Concubine The Princess And The Teacher
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Author : Douglas Scott Brookes
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Concubine The Princess And The Teacher written by Douglas Scott Brookes and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with History categories.
In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.
Life After The Harem
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Author : Betül İpşirli Argit
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Life After The Harem written by Betül İpşirli Argit and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources
Beshir Agha
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Author : Jane Hathaway
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Beshir Agha written by Jane Hathaway and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Religion categories.
This book explores the life of el-Hajj Beshir Agha (ca. 1657-1746), the most powerful Chief Harem Eunuch in the history of the Ottoman Empire Enslaved in his native Ethiopia as a boy, then castrated in Egypt, el-Hajj Beshir became one of hundreds of East African eunuchs who inhabited the imperial palace’s enormous harem. Rising through the ranks to become harem treasurer by 1707, he eventually oversaw the educations of crown princes and harem women whilst choosing and deposing a long series of grand viziers. Wielding unparallelled power and influence over the empire, the libraries that he founded throughout the region helped to shape the religious and intellectual profile of the Ottoman state.
A Tragedy In The Imperial Harem At Constantinople
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Author : Mme. Adriana Delcambre Piazzi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
A Tragedy In The Imperial Harem At Constantinople written by Mme. Adriana Delcambre Piazzi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Istanbul (Turkey) categories.
The Chief Eunuch Of The Ottoman Harem
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Author : Jane Hathaway
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-30
The Chief Eunuch Of The Ottoman Harem written by Jane Hathaway and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-30 with History categories.
A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
The Imperial Harem Of The Sultans
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Author : Leylâ Saz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Imperial Harem Of The Sultans written by Leylâ Saz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Harem categories.
Harem Secrets
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Author : Alum Bati
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Harem Secrets written by Alum Bati and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
1530, Istanbul. In the centre of empire lurks sexual depravity, murder, intrigue, lies, spies, and deceit. Adam Pasha, the Chief Justice, investigates a death in the Imperial Harem.
Empress Of The East
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Author : Leslie Peirce
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Empress Of The East written by Leslie Peirce and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with History categories.
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world's most powerful men. Suleyman became besotted with Roxelana and foreswore all other concubines, freeing and marrying her. The bold and canny Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, helping Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women - Isabella of Hungary, Catherine de Medici - were increasingly close to power. Until now Roxelana has been seen by historians as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.