Comedy in the Dark Ages: Hrotsvitha

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The art of the theater died out in the West with the fall of the Roman Empire. But in the unlikely setting of Germany in the 10th century, a remarkable woman revived both comedy and drama. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim was a secular canoness (a member of a religious community living a monastic life) who read the ancient Roman playwrights Plautus and Terrance and used them as models for her own plays. Produced for the edification and entertainment of her fellow sisters, Hrotsvitha's comedies featured the exploits of saintly heroines humiliating their lecherous pagan captors. John Hamer of Toronto Centre Palce read from Hrotsvitha's work (some of the humor is still funny today!) and look at her context and legacy.

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26 янв 2022

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Комментарии : 13

@tim2453 2 года назад

Excellent lecture, as always! Thank you so much for your positive contributions.

@andrewisjesus 2 года назад

Just showing love for the algorithm. I will have to listen later

@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 2 года назад

She was born in Bad Gandersheim. Is there a Good Gandersheim, I wonder... {:-:-:}

@fly_8659 2 года назад

I googled the place and was amused to discover there's a Bad Gandersheim Aerodrome.

@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 2 года назад

@@fly_8659 LOL! {:-:-:}

@Chief-Solarize 2 года назад

I love Hrostbeef

@alcoholicnerd514 2 года назад

@ Centre Place, was the lecture on Boetius actually recorded? Can't find it anywhere.

@ricorivera1867 2 года назад

Was the patriarchal bias influenced by Jewish Roman, Greek or other traditions?

@Hector_Moira 2 года назад

All of the above I would say

@FireEverLiving 2 года назад

Patriarchal culture has appeared independently in many different times and places, so I think that it's just something encouraged by biology. Women are much weaker physically than men, and pregnancy both disables them for a time and often killed them at a young age. (Not to say that it's right, or that there were no non-patriarchal cultures!)

@VSP4591 11 месяцев назад

Yes, it is important to mention that Protestants ended up the monastic life in Europe. They confiscated the assets of monasteries on the ground that practice in not in line with early Christianity. Assets (money, land, buildings, books, etc.) were confiscated by the new Protestant Church. So many written treasuries were lost in this process, especially in England during Henry VIII which destroyed more than 500 monasteries. He invented a new religion in order to get a divorce and marry a woman that beheaded later on. Very perplexing.