In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Easte...
Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for furt...
The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire’s on...
Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and main...
Abducted by slave traders from her home in Ruthenia - modern-day Ukraine - around 1515, Roxela...
Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and main...
'Peirce tells the ... story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at ...
The "e;fascinating...lively"e; story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from co...