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Hrotsvit's Apostolic Mission: Prefaces, Dedications, And Other Addresses To Readers, Phyllis Brown
Hrotsvit's Apostolic Mission: Prefaces, Dedications, And Other Addresses To Readers, Phyllis Brown
English
The most complete manuscript of Hrotsvit's writings, Bavarian State Library Clm 14485 (the Munich codex), includes prefaces, dedications, and other addresses to readers in which Hrotsvit names herself and provides information about her education, writing practices, and purposes. If this manuscript had not survived, we might have some of her plays and poems extant in other manuscripts, but we would know little or nothing about Hrotsvit, and we would likely not be able to imagine that such a scholar and writer could have existed. By naming and identifying herself as an author and addressing readers in the first-person, not only …
Authentic Education: The Example Of Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim, Phyllis Brown
Authentic Education: The Example Of Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim, Phyllis Brown
English
The Emmeram-Munich manuscript, produced around 980, contains nine of ten surviving verse narratives by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim arranged with her six plays, a poem depicting scenes from the apocalypse, and several prayers in verse, all contextualized by a series of prefaces, dedicatory poems, epilogues, and a letter to learned patrons ("sapientes. . . fautores"), who had read her work and encouraged her. Nearly everything we know about Hrotsvit's life, education, and intentions as a writer must be gleaned from this manuscript, in which she names herself multiple times. In her preface to the legends she also names two teachers, Riccardis …