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Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography compiled by Stefan Blaschke |
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Contact Search Introduction + History Announcements + Updates Alphabetical Index Chronological Index Geographical Index Topical Index + Cases + Types + Victims + Society + Research Resources + Research |
Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: 10th Century:
Representations: Literary Texts: »Hrotsvitha (c. 935-973) was a secular canoness who wrote drama and Christian poetry under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon nobles and entered Gandersheim Abbey as a canoness. She is considered the first female writer from the Germanosphere, the first female historian, the first person since the Fall of the Roman Empire to write dramas in the Latin West, and the first German female poet.« -- More information: Wikipedia Calimachus (Play) »In "Callimach", a woman, who has been the subject of an attempted rape, prays for death. God grants her prayer and she dies before the man can resume his attack. Taken by her beauty the man goes to her grave and attempts intercourse with her corpse, is killed by a venomous serpent.« -- More information: Wikipedia Chronological Index: Medieval History: 10th Century | Geographical Index: European History: German History | Topical Index: Cases: Real Offenders: Callimachus; Real Victims: Drusiana; Types: General: Rape I. Author Index [Info] Butler, Colleen D. Queering the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Reception in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2016. II. Speaker Index - Dulcitius (Play) »Hrotsvitha plays focus on the issues that affect women of her time such as marriage, rape, and being seen as an object. "Dulcitius", deals with rape, a common issue and form of oppression that women experience. It is even argued that Hrotsvitha's work of "Dulcitius" acted as a reflection to lives of women in her hometown of Gandersheim, living in a hostile environment targeted by an extrinsic threat that is male in nature, showing the possible focus she gives towards women and feminism as a whole.« -- More information: Wikipedia Chronological Index: Medieval History: 10th Century | Geographical Index: European History: German History | Topical Index: Types: General: Rape I. Author Index [Info] Butler, Colleen D. Queering the Classics: Gender, Genre, and Reception in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2016. [Info] Demetriou, Chrysanthi. »Controversial Topics in School and Literature: Hrotswitha and Donatus on Terence's Rapes.« Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures No. 3 (2020): 2-22. [Info] Verner, Lisa. »Consent, rape and pollution: The context of Hrosvitha's Dulcitius.« The Explicator (August 10, 2023). II. Speaker Index - |