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In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anatolian city that had recently been conquered by the Ottoman sultanate, Peirce argues that local residents responded to new opportunities and new constraints by negotiating flexible legal practices. Their actions and the different compromises they reached in court influenced how society viewed gender and also created a dialogue with the ruling regime over mutual rights and obligations. Locating its discussion of gender and legal issues in the context of the changing administrative practices and shifting power relations of the period, Morality Tales argues that it was only in local interpretation that legal rules acquired vitality and meaning.

Women (Islamic law) --- Sex and law --- Law and sex --- Sex --- Sex crimes --- Women --- Islamic law --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law) --- History --- Women (Islamic law) - Turkey - History --- Sex and law - History --- 16th century. --- administrative. --- analysis. --- anatolian. --- class issues. --- community. --- court cases. --- courtroom. --- domestic. --- family issues. --- family life. --- gender issues. --- justice. --- law. --- legal issues. --- local justice. --- middle east. --- middle eastern. --- morality. --- ottoman empire. --- power relations. --- power. --- property. --- punishment. --- self representation. --- social hierarchy. --- sultan. --- violence.

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"FROM CHRISTIAN MAIDEN TO MUSLIM QUEEN: Roxelana was born in Ruthenia, possibly the daughter of a priest but more likely into an average family, facing a hardscrabble life. She was captured by slavers around age 12 and taken to the Ottoman court. Her trajectory was extraordinary--she became a favored concubine and then the first, and only, Ottoman Queen. From rags to riches, her life is one of political maneuvering, rule breaking, and forbidden love. A Christian slave girl ripped from her homeland who, against all odds, rose to become the only queen in the history of the Ottoman Empire, Roxelana has long been accused of witchcraft and blamed for turning the sultan Suleyman's head--even preventing him from reaching his full potential as a ruler. But the truth is even more remarkable: the first (and only) Queen in Ottoman history, Roxelana was a diplomat, an administrator, and a modernizer who helped Suleyman keep up with the changing world. She is a remarkable figure whose fascinating story warrants retelling, and whose life will shed new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire. Soon after Roxelana entered Suleyman's harem, however, Suleyman set aside all others, breaking centuries of tradition in favor of the laughing Ruthenian maiden, who he would eventually free and marry. Controversial from the outset, Roxelana has remained so for historians. Both in life and in death, she has been a lightning rod for virtually all of Suleyman's unpopular acts, including a series of controversial executions. This greatest of Ottoman sultans has himself been sold short by the myth of his susceptibility to Roxelana's charms"-- "The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleiman became besotted with her, and forsook all other mistresses.Then, in an unprecedented step, he made her the first and only queen in the Ottoman court. Although shrouded in scandal, the canny and sophisticated Roxelana became a shrewd diplomat and administrator, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women--from Queen Elizabeth to Catherine de Medici--increasingly held the reins of power. In Empress of the East, Pierce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who pushed the Ottoman Empire towards modernity"--

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. --- HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire. --- HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century. --- Mistresses --- Queens --- Slaves --- Hurrem, --- Süleyman --- Marriage. --- Turkey --- Turkey --- Ukrainians --- History --- Kings and rulers

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"Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searches for the voices of the unfree, drawing on archives, histories written at the time, and legal texts"--

Captivity --- Slavery --- History. --- Turkey. --- Turkey --- History --- 16th century, 17th century, Ottoman Empire, Slavery, Social conditions, Social history.