IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 232: Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim's Hagiographical Drama: Codicology, Quellenforschung, and Literary Strategies

Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Latin Series, Harvard University Press
Organiser:	Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien
Paper 232-a	Hrotsvitha, Author and Editor: The Question of Editorial Influence and Creativity in Manuscripts (Language: English) Hannelore Segers, Department of the Classics, Harvard University Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 232-b	Some Questions of Intertextuality and Chronology in the Oeuvre of Hrothsvita of Gandersheim (Language: English) Kurt Smolak, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien / Institut für Schriftwesen und Textedition, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 232-c	Perversion and Conversion: Typical Plot Structures, Agency, and Semanticized Spaces in Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim's 'Comoediae' (Language: English) Martin M. Bauer, Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen, Universität Innsbruck Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	This panel concentrates on the oeuvre of Hrothsvita of Gandersheim in association with the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library's forthcoming text and translation of her Complete Works by Robert G. Babcock. Segers studies the editorial process of München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 14485 in relation to Terentian models. Smolak explores the chronology and quellenforschung of the Dies-irae verses' in her Verslegende Theophilus and studys the Dulcitius in relation to 1. a Schwank from the Gesta Romanorum and 2. a Salzburg Benedictine drama. Bauer compares the plots of Gallicanus and three other plays to their hagiographical sources to delineate and explain features previously seen as flaws.