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Tag Archives: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
no naughty bits
The life of a eunuch. Its from a bygone era, but one not form a so-distant past. In Ottoman Turkey, the eunuch, both white and black enjoyed a certain status of the social scale, and those scales seemed to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Evliya Effendi, George Antoine Rochegrosse, Jean Claude Flechet, John Mole, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Ottaviano Bon, The Black Eunuchs Ottoman, The White Eunuchs Ottoman, Thomas Dallam
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messy antics
Passion unchained. Does absolute power equate with absolute bliss? For the Sultan’s of the Ottoman Empire for the most part; the effort to reconcile two antagonistic ideas seemed to almost take a perverse pleasure. Seraglio life could be characterized as … Continue reading
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Tagged Georges Antoine Rochegrosse, Grand Seraglio, Jean Claude Flechet, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Ottaviano Bon, Ottoman Turkey history, Sir Paul Rycaut, Sultan Ibrahim I
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caucasian cream of the crop
In selecting a concubine, a Sultan held a regular weekly levee at which the virgins of the harem were brought in for his inspection; he dropped a hankerchief at the feet of the one who pleased him most, indicating she … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Aldiss, Antonio Maria Fabres y Costa, Evliya Effendi, Georges Jules Victor Clairin, Grand Seraglio, Jean Claude Flechet, John Mole, Khurrem roxelana, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Ottaviano Bon, Paul Alexandre Alfred Leroy, Roxelana and Suleiman, Sultan Ibrahim I, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Thomas Dallam
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dinner is served: lonely at the top in the HMS Sultan
The social life in the Grand Seraglio was not all it had been cracked up to be. The power exercised there by the Sultan was absolute to be sure. But did it bring bliss? … When the Sultan got back … Continue reading
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Tagged Evliya Effendi, Franz Xavier Simm, Grand Seraglio, Jean-Claude Flachat, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottaviano Bon, Ottoman Empire Sultans, Suleiman the Magnificent
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suspicious minds
Good to walk around with a mirror just to see who may be sneaking up on you. Hard to find a Sultan who wasn’t suspicious and didn’t keep a food tester on the payroll. And lets not talk about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aya Sofia mosque, Conquest of Constantinople, Fabbi Fabbio, Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Hagia Sophia church, Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Claude Flachat, john frederick lewis, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ottaviano Bon, Selim III sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, Valide Sultans
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royal etiquette: eye of the Sultan
His Majesty’s seamy service.Throne Room Without and Within. Modern Turkish history contains much to be proud of, but it was preceded by a long and unbroken seamy past of plots hatched and destinies decided within the walls of the Grand … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmed I and Mustafa, Anton Hickel, Charles II England, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Murad III Sultan, Mustafa the cage, Selim III sultan
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who’s the fairest sultan of all
The Grand Seraglio. As opposed to Seraglio Minor. Yes that Grand Seraglio with the violence, the death and the sex fueled only the passion thatsix thousand concubines can command and the wayward restlessness of the Janissary guards. Frontier justice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmed I and Mustafa, Grand Seraglio, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Baltimore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Mustafa the cage, Ottaviano Bon, Radu the Handsome, Sultan Ahmed I, sultan murad IV, Sultan Osman
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vintage violence
Janissaries were uneducated except in violence and were fanatically conservative. In 1763, when Lord Baltimore passed through Constantinople, he observed that the Corps was still carrying bows and arrows, sabers and lances, having never got used to firearms. Sultan Selim … Continue reading
absolute bliss and the grand seraglio
Within its walls, the Turkish sultans sought the answer to an ancient question: Can absolute power bring absolute bliss? …. The Grand Seraglio in Instanbul. Until 1852 this was the Sultans’ residence, a palace known in the West as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Duchess of Marlborough, Grand Seraglio Harem, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Baudier, Mozart abduction from the grand seraglio, Ottaviano Bon, Paul-Louis Bouchard, Sir Paul Rycaut
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