Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances
ISBN-13:
9780802089625
ISBN-10:
0802089623
Edition:
2nd ed.
Author:
Katharina Wilson, Phyllis Brown, Linda A. McMillin
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Format:
Hardcover
360 pages
Category:
Women Writers
,
Women's Studies
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ISBN-13:
9780802089625
ISBN-10:
0802089623
Edition:
2nd ed.
Author:
Katharina Wilson, Phyllis Brown, Linda A. McMillin
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press
Format:
Hardcover
360 pages
Category:
Women Writers
,
Women's Studies
Summary
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances (ISBN-13: 9780802089625 and ISBN-10: 0802089623), written by authors
Katharina Wilson, Phyllis Brown, Linda A. McMillin, was published by University of Toronto Press in 2004.
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Hrotsvit was the first dramatist of Christianity, the first female Saxon poet, the first Germanic author to employ the Faust theme, and one of the first Western writers to compose a Christian epic. The essays in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim examine the historical, cultural, legal, and political contexts of Hrotsvit's works, locating her opus within the tenth-century aristocratic and clerical intellectual milieu.This collection contextualizes Hrotsvit's works with respect to heroic, sexual, domestic, behavioural, linguistic, theological, and hierarchical aspects of early medieval and patristic literary traditions. It also explores other literary texts that inform Hrotsvit's works and discusses the performance history and theatricality of Hrotsvit's plays.Hrotsvit's keen awareness of contemporary issues and her determination, within the parameters of monastic-aristocratic ideological constraints, to provide her readers with a rich variety of exemplary female heroes and acts of personal courage, offer twenty-first-century readers a powerful model of responsibility and agency.
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