Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Subtitle: contexts, identities, affinities, and performances
By: edited by Phyllis R. Brown, Linda A. McMillin, and Katharina M. Wilson.
Contributors: Brown, Phyllis Rugg, 1949-; Wilson, Katharina M.; McMillin, Linda A., 1959-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca. 975 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.; Women and literature -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the problem of royal succession in the East Frankish kingdom -- Jay T. Lees; title: Iudex Aequus : legality and equity in Hrotsvit's Pelagius -- David Day; title: 'Weighed down with a thousand evils' : images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius -- Linda A. McMillin; title: Violence and virginity in Hrotsvit's dramas -- Florence Newman; title: Kids say the darndest things : irascible children in Hrotsvit's Sapientia -- Daniel T. Kline; title: Construction of the desiring subject in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and Agnes -- Ronald Stottlemyer; title: Pulchrum signum? Sexuality and the politics of religion in the works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim composed between 963 and 973 -- Ulrike Wiethaus; title: Hrotsvit's dramas : is there a Roman in these texts? -- Robert Talbot; title: Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a foreign woman -- Phyllis R. Brown; title: Hrotsvit and the devil -- Patricia Silber; title: Hrotsvit's Latin drama Gallicanus and the Old English epic Elene : intercultural founding narratives of a feminized church -- Jane Chance; title: Hrotsvit's literary legacy -- Debra L. Stoudt; title: 'Bring me a soldier's garb and a good horse' : embedded stage directions in the dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Janet Snyder; title: Dramatic convergence in Times Square : Hrotsvit's Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe's 3 virgins -- Jane E. Jeffrey; title: Playing with Hrotsvit : adventures in contemporary performance -- Michael A. Zampelli.