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HROTSVTT OF GANDERSHEIM Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances This page intentionally left blank HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances Edited by Phyllis R. Brown, Linda A. McMillin, and Katharina M. Wilson UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2004 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-8962-3 Printed on acid-free paper National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Hrotsvit of Gandersheim : contexts, identities, affinities, and performances / edited by Phyllis R. Brown, Linda A. McMillin, and Katharina M. Wilson. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8020-8962-3 1. Hrotsvitha, ca. 935—ca. 975 — Criticism and interpretation. I. Brown, Phyllis Rugg, 1949- II. McMillin, Linda A., 1959- III. Wilson, Katharina M. PA 8340.H76 2004 872'.03 C2003-905582-5 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). Contents Introduction 3 KATHARINA M. WILSON Section 1. Constructing a Context Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the Problem of Royal Succession in the East Prankish Kingdom 13 JAY T. LEES The Index Aequus: Legality and Equity in Hrotsvit's Basilius 29 DAVID DAY 'Weighed down with a thousand evils': Images of Muslims in Hrotsvit's Pelagius 40 LINDA A. McMILLIN Section 2. Forming Identities Violence and Virginity in Hrotsvit's Dramas 59 FLORENCE NEWMAN Kids Say the Darndest Things: Irascible Children in Hrotsvit's Sapientia 77 DANIEL T. KLINE vi Contents The Construction of the Desiring Subject in Hrotsvit's Pelagius and Agnes 96 RONALD STOTTLEMYER Pulchrum Signum? Sexuality and the Politics of Religion in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim Composed between 963 and 973 125 ULRIKE WIETHAUS Section 3. Creating Affinities Hrotsvit's Dramas: Is There a Roman in These Texts? 147 ROBERT TALBOT Hrotsvit's Sapientia as a Foreign Woman 160 PHYLLIS R. BROWN Hrotsvit and the Devil 177 PATRICIA SILBER Hrotsvit's Latin Drama Gallicanus and the Old English Epic Elene: Intercultural Founding Narratives of a Feminized Church 193 JANE CHANCE Section 4. Conducting Performances Hrotsvit's Literary Legacy 213 DEBRA L. STOUDT 'Bring me a soldier's garb and a good horse': Embedded Stage Directions in the Dramas of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim 235 JANET SNYDER Dramatic Convergence in Times Square: Hrotsvit's Sapientia and Collapsable Giraffe's 3 Virgins 251 JANE E.JEFFREY Contents vii Playing with Hrotsvit: Adventures in Contemporary Performance 265 MICHAEL A. ZAMPELLI Works Cited 283 Contributors 303 Index 305 This page intentionally left blank HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances
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