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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Phyllis R. Brown is an associate professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University.
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Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with black spine lettering; tan dj with bw illustration and lettering, mylar cover; vii, 313 pp. Contents: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the problem of royal succession in the East Frankish kingdom /; Jay T. Lees --; Iudex Aequus : legality and equity in Hrotsvit's Pelagius /; David Day --; 'Weighed down with a thousand evils' : images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius /; Linda A. McMillin --; Violence and virginity in Hrotsvit's dramas /; Florence Newman --; Kids say the darndest things : irascible children in Hrotsvit's Sapientia /; Daniel T. Kline --; Construction of the desiring subject in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and Agnes /; Ronald Stottlemyer --; Pulchrum signum? Sexuality and the politics of religion in the works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim composed between 963 and 973 /; Ulrike Wiethaus --; Hrotsvit's dramas : is there a Roman in these texts? /; Robert Talbot --; Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a foreign woman /; Phyllis R. Brown --; Hrotsvit and the devil /; Patricia Silber --; Hrotsvit's Latin drama Gallicanus and the Old English epic Elene : intercultural founding narratives of a feminized church /; Jane Chance --; Hrotsvit's literary legacy /; Debra L. Stoudt --; 'Bring me a soldier's garb and a good horse' : embedded stage directions in the dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim /; Janet Snyder --; Dramatic convergence in Times Square : Hrotsvit's Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe's 3 virgins /; Jane E. Jeffrey --; Playing with Hrotsvit : adventures in contemporary performance /; Michael A. Zampelli. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). N° de réf. du vendeur 185791
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