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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

By Wilson, Katharina M

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

By Wilson, Katharina M

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
140
Release Date:
1998-06-01
Publication Date:
2000-09-05
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0859914895
ISBN13:
9780859914895
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Weight:
186 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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