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

Published by University of Toronto Press 2004

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances

Edited by: Phyllis Brown , Linda A. McMillin and Katharina Wilson

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442675902

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Brown Phyllis :

Phyllis R. Brown is an associate professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University.McMillin Linda A. :

Linda A. McMillin is a professor in the Department of History at Susquehanna University.Wilson Katharina :

Katharina M. Wilson is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Katharina M. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section 1. Constructing a Context
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the Problem of Royal Succession in the East Frankish Kingdom Jay T. Lees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Iudex Aequus: Legality and Equity in Hrotsvit’s Basilius David Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
‘Weighed down with a thousand evils’: Images of Muslims in Hrotsvit’s Pelagius Linda A. McMillin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Section 2. Forming Identities
Violence and Virginity in Hrotsvit’s Dramas Florence Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Kids Say the Darndest Things: Irascible Children in Hrotsvit’s Sapientia Daniel T. Kline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Construction of the Desiring Subject in Hrotsvit’s Pelagius and Agnes Ronald Stottlemyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Pulchrum Signum? Sexuality and the Politics of Religion in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Composed between 963 and 973 Ulrike Wiethaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Section 3. Creating Affinities
Hrotsvit’s Dramas: Is There a Roman in These Texts? Robert Talbot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Hrotsvit’s Sapientia as a Foreign Woman Phyllis R. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Hrotsvit and the Devil Patricia Silber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Hrotsvit’s Latin Drama Gallicanus and the Old English Epic Elene: Intercultural Founding Narratives of a Feminized Church Jane Chance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Section 4. Conducting Performances
Hrotsvit’s Literary Legacy Debra L. Stoudt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
‘Bring me a soldier’s garb and a good horse’: Embedded Stage Directions in the Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Janet Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Dramatic Convergence in Times Square: Hrotsvit’s Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe’s 3 Virgins Jane E. Jeffrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Playing with Hrotsvit: Adventures in Contemporary Performance Michael A. Zampelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 360

eBook

Published: April 27, 2004
ISBN: 9781442675902