Hrotsvitha, Hildegard, and the Nun who Resurrected Theater: Crash Course Theater #9
You can learn more at https://curiositystream.com/crashcourse When last we saw Theater, it was just making its way back in the West, by sneaking a little drama into the Easter mass. In today's...
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Hey there! My name is Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Theater and Last time, we looked at how the liturgical drama—specifically a call-and-response section smuggled into the Easter liturgy—helped bring theater back to the West. Today we’ll look at another way theater got snuck back into the Christian world. Who did the sneaking? A canoness! What is a canoness? It’s a fancy kind of nun! Not often known for their sneaking, right? All those surprising sneaks took place in an abbey, in an otherwise unremarkable spot in Lower Saxony, Germany. You can still visit it today, if you want! Enjoy the half-timbered houses, and if you’re old enough, raise a beer stein to Hrotsvitha, the Loud Cry of Gandersheim—the queen of medieval closet drama an...
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Hey there! My name is Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Theater and Last time, we looked at how the liturgical drama—specifically a call-and-response section smuggled into the Easter liturgy—helped bring theater back to the West. Today we’ll look at another way theater got snuck back into the Christian world. Who did the sneaking? A canoness! What is a canoness? It’s a fancy kind of nun! Not often known for their sneaking, right? All those surprising sneaks took place in an abbey, in an otherwise unremarkable spot in Lower Saxony, Germany. You can still visit it today, if you want! Enjoy the half-timbered houses, and if you’re old enough, raise a beer stein to Hrotsvitha, the Loud Cry of Gandersheim—the queen of medieval closet drama an...
