The “Mighty Voice of Gandersheim”: Hrotsvit’s Didactic Motivation in Her Plays
Hediye Özkan
Abstract:The monastic author of the Saxon Imperial abbey of Gandersheim, Hrotsvit of
Gandersheim was a notable woman playwright during the reign of Otto I, who had been
crowned Roman emperor by the Pope in 962. Hrotsvit subverts notoriously misogynistic
medieval literature and the negative literary depiction of women in her plays composed
in the middle of the 10th century. She substitutes the masculine tradition and pagan
writers’ themes of shameless indecency of lascivious women with saintly women who
verbally and int… Show more
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