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.
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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.
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VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Tan cloth boards with black spine lettering; tan dj with bw illustration and lettering, mylar cover; vii, 313 pp. Contents: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the problem of royal succession in the East Frankish kingdom /; Jay T. Lees--; Iudex Aequus: legality and equity in Hrotsvit's Pelagius /; David Day--; 'Weighed down with a thousand evils': images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius /; Linda A. McMillin--; Violence and virginity in Hrotsvit's dramas /; Florence Newman--; Kids say the darndest things: irascible children in Hrotsvit's Sapientia /; Daniel T. Kline--; Construction of the desiring subject in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and Agnes /; Ronald Stottlemyer--; Pulchrum signum? Sexuality and the politics of religion in the works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim composed between 963 and 973 /; Ulrike Wiethaus--; Hrotsvit's dramas: is there a Roman in these texts? /; Robert Talbot--; Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a foreign woman /; Phyllis R. Brown--; Hrotsvit and the devil /; Patricia Silber--; Hrotsvit's Latin drama Gallicanus and the Old English epic Elene: intercultural founding narratives of a feminized church /; Jane Chance--; Hrotsvit's literary legacy /; Debra L. Stoudt--; 'Bring me a soldier's garb and a good horse': embedded stage directions in the dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim /; Janet Snyder--; Dramatic convergence in Times Square: Hrotsvit's Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe's 3 virgins /; Jane E. Jeffrey--; Playing with Hrotsvit: adventures in contemporary performance /; Michael A. Zampelli.
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