Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of Her Works - Couverture souple

Wilson, Katharina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0859914895 ISBN 13 : 9780859914895

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 1998

Synopsis

Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual pre-eminence. Her importance cannot be overestimated: she is the first poet of Saxony; the first known dramatist of Christianity (indeed the first known woman dramatist of any time); and a woman displaying erudition and wit in an essentially patriarchal age, a female author in a literary field dominated by men who insisted on re-evaluating and redrawing the literary depiction of women. Discovered in the late fifteenth century, her extraordinary oeuvre, written in medieval Latin, comprises a wide variety of genres: eight legends, six dramas, and two epics, organised into three books.
The present volume contains a selection of Hrotsvit's works in Englishtranslation, together with an interpretative essay, critical introduction, and scholarly apparatus.
Professor KATHARINA WILSONteaches at the University of Georgia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859914895
• ISBN 13: 9780859914895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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