Title Hrotsvit of Gandersheim : Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances

Edition 2nd ed Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (322 pages) Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1. Constructing a Context -- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the Problem of Royal Succession in the East Frankish Kingdom -- The Index Aequus: Legality and Equity in Hrotsvit's Basilius -- 'Weighed down with a thousand evils': Images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius -- Section 2. Forming Identities -- Violence and Virginity in Hrotsvit's Dramas -- Kids Say the Darndest Things: Irascible Children in Hrotsvit's Sapientia -- The Construction of the Desiring Subject in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and Agnes -- Pulchrum Signum? Sexuality and the Politics of Religion in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Composed between 963 and 973 -- Section 3. Creating Affinities -- Hrotsvit's Dramas: Is There a Roman in These Texts? -- Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a Foreign Woman -- Hrotsvit and the Devil -- Hrotsvit's Latin Drama Gallicanus and the Old English Epic Elene: Intercultural Founding Narratives of a Feminized Church -- Section 4. Conducting Performances -- Hrotsvit's Literary Legacy -- 'Bring me a soldier's garb and a good horse': Embedded Stage Directions in the Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Dramatic Convergence in Times Square: Hrotsvit's Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe's 3 Virgins -- Playing with Hrotsvit: Adventures in Contemporary Performance -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z Summary Hrotsvit's keen awareness of contemporary issues and her determination 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 Notes Print version record Subject Hrotsvitha, approximately 935-approximately 975 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Hrotsvitha, approximately 935-approximately 975 fast Subject Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism Christianity and literature -- Germany -- History -- To 1500 Women and literature -- Germany -- History -- To 1500 Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) Christianity and literature Women and literature Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author McMillin, Linda A Wilson, Katharina Brown, Phyllis R ISBN 9781442675902 144267590X

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