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Ancient Greek
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Christianity
Comedy
Drama
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Gandersheim Abbey
Gender
Hagiography
Hrosvite
Latin
Legend
Medieval Feminism
Medieval Literature
Middle Ages
Ottonian Renaissance
Play
Poetry
Roswitha
Saxony
Women's Studies
Women's Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780859914895
- Weight: 182g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 1998
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
