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Notes
Susan Skilliter, “Three Letters from the Ottoman ‘Sultana’ Safiye to Queen Elizabeth I” in Samuel M. Stern (ed.), Documents from Islamic Chanceries (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1970).
Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560 – 1660 (New York, Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 47.
Lisa Jardine, “Gloriana Rules the Waves: or, The Advantage of Being Excommunicated (And A Woman)”, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 6:14, 2004, p. 211.
Elizabeth I, “The letters patents, or privileges graunted by her Majestie to Sir Edward Osborne, Master Richard Staper, and certaine other Marchants of London for their trade into the dominions of the great Turke” in Richard Hakluyt (ed.), Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of The English Nation (Glasgow, Glasgow University Press, 1904), vol. 5, p. 200 and Peter Stallybrass, “Marginal England: The View from Aleppo” in Lena Cowen Orlin (ed.), Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll (Selinsgrove, Susquehanna University Press, 2006), pp. 27-39.
Christine Woodhead, “Harborne, William (c. 1542–1617), merchant and diplomat”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies, <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12234> [19 August 2022].
Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 144 and Leslie Peirce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 94.
From the Arabic “safi,” meaning pure, clear, fair or unspoiled.
See the re-edition: Ahmet Refik Altınay, Kadinlar Saltanati (Istanbul, Tarih Vakfi Yayinlari, 2005).
On the lasting influence of Hürrem on the conduct of following Sultanas, see Peirce, The Imperial Harem, p. 95.
Humphrey Connisby, in an undated letter in the Cotton Manuscripts at the British Library, Nero B xvi, ff. 7b-8a, quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 153.
Edward Barton, “Memorial presented by the English Ambassador to the Sultana” in Horatio F. Brown (ed.), The Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Venice (1592-1603) (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897), vol. 9, p. 5.
Richard Wrag, “A description of a voyage to Constantinople and Syria” in Principal Navigations, vol. 6, p. 102.
Tracey A. Sowerby, “Negotiating the Royal Image: Portrait Exchanges in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Diplomacy” in Helen Hackett (ed.), Early Modern Exchanges: Dialogues Between Nations and Cultures, 1550-1750 (London, Routledge, 2016), p. 128.
Wrag, “A Description”, p. 102.
Skilliter, “Three Letters”, pp. 121-2.
Rayne Allinson, A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 135.
Sara Morrison, “‘I Shall Endeavor for Her Aims:’ Women’s Alliances and Relational Figurations of Freedom”, Humanities 7:4, 2018.
Sowerby, “Negotiating the Royal Image”, p. 125.
Carrie Anderson, “Material Mediators: Johan Maurits, Textiles, and the Art of Diplomatic Exchange”, Journal of Early Modern History 20, 2016, p. 65.
Safiye quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters,” pp. 132-3.
Thomas Dallam, “The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam (1599-1600)” in Early Voyages and Travels in the
Levant, ed. Theodore Bent (London, Hakluyt Society, 1893), p. 63.
John Sanderson, The Travels of John Sanderson in the Levant (1584-1602) (London, Hakluyt Society, 1930), p. 61.
Lello to Robert Cecil, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, p. xlv.
Sowerby, “Negotiating the Royal Image”, p. 134.
Lello, quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 153.
Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 133.
Safiye, quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 139.
Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 142.
Ibid., p. 152.
Esperanza Malchi, quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 143.
Ibid.
Luca Molà, “Material Diplomacy: Venetian Luxury Gifts for the Ottoman Empire in the Late Renaissance” in Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, Biedermann, Zoltán, et al. (eds) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 73-4.
Ibid., pp. 75-8.
Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Senato, Dispacci Constantinopoli (DISPC), filza 39, fol. 607r-v, 6 August 1594, quoted in Molà, “Material Diplomacy”, p. 76.
Biblioteca del Museo Correr, Mss. Donà dalle Rose, 236, Dispacci del Bailo Venier, fols. 45v-46r, 25 November 1594, quoted in Molà, “Material Diplomacy”, p. 77.
Josie Schoel, “Cosmetics, Whiteness, and Fashioning Early Modern Englishness”, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 60:1, 2020.
John Watkins, “Toward a New Diplomatic History of Medieval and Early Modern Europe”, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:1, 2008, pp. 1–14, p. 2.
Edward Barton, quoted in Skilliter, “Three Letters”, p. 148.
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