Delve Into Empress Of The East: How A European Slave Girl Became Queen Of The Ottoman Empire Assembled By Leslie Peirce Compiled As Bound Copy

have the series, Magnificent Century, and Ive watched it abouttimes or even, Id love to know all the back stories they dont tell you in the series, so I had to find it on my own! Cant wait to read it.
I have become fascinated with the Ottomans, Roxelana and Suleiman after watching The Magnificent Century a Turkish series that is available through some streaming services.
After beginning the series, I wanted to learn about Roxelana and Suleiman and This fascinating biography of an enslaved Russian concubine of Ottoman Emperor Shah Suleiman the Magnificent inth century illuminates politics and cultural contrasts of hotly contested Near East: present day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Greece, Hungary Entrenched slavery I have long awaited a bio of the love affair between Hurrem Roxelana and Suleyman the Magnificent, one of the enduring love stories of all time.
Historian Leslie Peirce brings to vivid life a highly readable, well researched heroic story of this remarkableth Century I enjoy reading historical books, I am watching Magnificent Century The book

is very informative about the ottamon dynasty.
During the time that Hurrem a slave became an empress, This is an incredible story of a famous Ottoman royal written by the brilliant historian Leslie Peirce! Its a story of how one woman can change everything, can change an empire! Roxelana was ath century slave who rose through the ranks to become the legal wife of the I love it The "fascinating.
lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire New York Times.


In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul.
Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines, Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her, The bold and canny Roxelana soon became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women, from Isabella of Hungary to Catherine de Medici, increasingly held the reins of power.


Until now Roxelana has been seen as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, Peirce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
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