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| Full Title | Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances 1st Edition |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Phyllis Brown |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| ISBN | 9781442675902, 9780802089625 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
| Format | PDF and EPUB |
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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