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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 136
Utgivningsdatum: 1998-04-01
Förlag: D.S. Brewer
Översättare: Katharina M Wilson
Originalspråk: Latin
Medarbetare: Wilson, Katharina M (Fr.)
Illustrationer: No
Dimensioner: 216 x 135 x 11 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 130 p. ;
ISSN: 1369-9652
ISBN: 9780859914895

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Name: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
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Author: Katharina Wilson
ISBN: 9780859914895

A Florilegium of her Works

av Katharina Wilson

Häftad, Engelska, 1998-04-01

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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.

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