Harem, the world behind the veil - Alev Lytle Croutier
the world behind the veil.
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KORTE INHOUD
This book explores harems all over the world, focusing on the celebrated Seraglio of Turkey's Topkapi Palace as a paradigm for all. We are shown the slave market and boudoirs of sultans, the daily routines of the odalisques - their baths, clothes and appetites - and the peculiar lives of the eunuchs who guarded and controlled them; all this alongside the splendour and depravity of the sultans, masters of the harem, whose rule was absolute.;The author also looks at the polygamous households of ordinary Middl...
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1989 Uitgever: Bloomsbury 224 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0747504970 ISBN-13: 9780747504979Koop dit boek tweedehands
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