I studied Hrostvitha at University, and one of the plays I read of hers, was Dulcitius. I found the humour in Dulcitius really shines through in the dialogue of the sisters standing up to the govenor. Worth a read if you like reading classical plays.
So glad that Hildegard is getting some love! I was a music major in college, and in our medieval music class we studied her pretty intensely. My friends and I were obsessed with her!
Hildegard von Bingen’s music is absolutely stunning, it’s almost celestial - the group Sequentia has recorded loads of her compositions, i highly recommend checking them out on spotify
This is wonderful! I love how you explore several different hypotheses for the creation and re-emergence of drama, and how you present several perspectives on each topic. This series is fantastic and such a joy to watch alongside CC World History, as I get to see how drama developed in relation to history. Thank you for making this series!
Pleasantly surprised at how generous this study in theater is being to Christian contributions to theater and drama. I generally associate theater with a worldview that has contempt for Christianity, so this is a welcome surprise.
Jeremy Foster they have to cover the historical contributions. Since Christianity has been the dominant force throughout Western history - for better or worse - its hard not to acknowledge it. That doesn't mean that Christianity hasn't also been a force of suppression, violence, and suffering during most of that time. Plus the channel's rather friendly treatment of the religion likely has a lot to do with the Green brothers being producers. John especially is rather biased toward Christianity.
Topher S Thanks for the comment. I was unaware of this history. As you might imagine, even as a Christian I'm not a fan of the Inquisition or the Crusades.
Understandably so. When Oliver Cromwell was in power in England from 1653 to 1658 as Lord Protector, he had theatre banned because he deemed it to be sinful and immoral. Cromwell was, unsurprisingly, a Puritan.
@@petehill7280 And when Christians came to power in Rome they ended formal theatre. One of many times theatre was censored in the name of religion. Source: working toward my Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts, got my AA.
at 0:32 when I hear "in an unremarkable spot", I think Hamilton. And immediately stop studying to spend an hour writing this: How does a well read, sassy, nun from an abbey in Saxon happen to publish works in Latin, packed with themes of chastity? By providence her omnibus grew taller, and she became a renowned scholar. This smooth talker, lady author who loved the Father got a lot farther by making herself smarter, by reading with great ardor, by making her prose sharper. Wrote poetry and plays filled with violence and chaste martyrs. One fateful day came. She came across a play, by a man from ancient Rome. I think Terrance was his name. Thought “This bro is dope, but he is just too profane. So I’ll write my own refrain, a testament to my faith!” Showed her work to the Abbess, who said “This is really great, man. You should keep on writing. Tell em’ what you have to say, fam. Show the congregation. His holiness, we will proclaim. Let your words glorify His name. What’s your name, man?” Hrotsvitha the canoness. My name is Hrotsvitha the cannoness. And I’m bringin drama back. Oh, yes. Just you wait. Just you wait.
as a musician i'd only ever heard of hildegarde's name in the context of her revolutionary compositions... good to know she was revolutionary in other settings too!!!
The Ordo Virtutem is gorgeous, totally worth it if you can ever see it in concert. That massive cast of virtues is often cut down to just the key players, and the Devil does not sing - according to Hildegard, song was divine, and he could not produce it.
It's very interesting to hear about the history of theatre in the West but I'm looking forward to finding out what was happening around this point in time in the rest of the world.
Given that the opening shows several forms of Japanese theatre (kabuki and bunraku at least) and that we've already had a look at Sanskrit theatre, I'd say we'll get to it in due time. We're only a quarter of the way through.
Wow, I really like your videos, they are great! (And I mean the British grade of "great", not just the American "great" 😄) Just two side notes: the big beer mugs (1 litre) are Bavarian ones, in Lower Saxony (thats also where I come from) we just have 0,3l glasses without handles 😅 and the pronunciation of Gandersheim was good, except from the break: It's Ganders-heim, not Gander-sheim. If you proceed with German history (I think you will come to the point with Hans Sachs later), you can contact me, if you want, and I can help you a bit, and even when it's just cutting out the wrong cliches about Germany or the pronunciation ;)
Hi Mike! I had a report on morality plays for my drama class for my major in creative writing (with particular attention on the medieval morality play, The Summoning of Everyman, aka Elckerlijc in Dutch). I'd like to know if Hildegarde's morality play is older than Everyman, which my teacher claimed to be the (only?) oldest surviving/oldest known medival drama. ((Also, it's so fascinating to see that there are female playwrights during the medieval period!))
I studied Hrostvitha at University, and one of the plays I read of hers, was Dulcitius. I found the humour in Dulcitius really shines through in the dialogue of the sisters standing up to the govenor. Worth a read if you like reading classical plays.
Mike, come and stay with Crash Course. You’re definitely my favorite historian
Agreed, I hope they will make more crash course mythology😁
So glad that Hildegard is getting some love! I was a music major in college, and in our medieval music class we studied her pretty intensely. My friends and I were obsessed with her!
Nuns aren't known for their sneaking? You clearly never went to Catholic school. I swear nuns get the ability to teleport when they take final vows.
Wow Hildegarde is like a medieval Tolkien! Who also writes musicals...just, wow.
tuskinekinase She's also a catholic saint and 'church teacher'! She's awesome!
Hildegard von Bingen’s music is absolutely stunning, it’s almost celestial - the group Sequentia has recorded loads of her compositions, i highly recommend checking them out on spotify
Comtempt of the World is my favorite virtue.
Contempt of the World is my only virtue.
Hildegard of Bingen is also responsible for the oldest record of the female Orgasem (recording one of her patients being a nun and such).
This is wonderful! I love how you explore several different hypotheses for the creation and re-emergence of drama, and how you present several perspectives on each topic. This series is fantastic and such a joy to watch alongside CC World History, as I get to see how drama developed in relation to history. Thank you for making this series!
This is a glorious Crash Course series. Love it!
Pleasantly surprised at how generous this study in theater is being to Christian contributions to theater and drama. I generally associate theater with a worldview that has contempt for Christianity, so this is a welcome surprise.
Jeremy Foster they have to cover the historical contributions. Since Christianity has been the dominant force throughout Western history - for better or worse - its hard not to acknowledge it. That doesn't mean that Christianity hasn't also been a force of suppression, violence, and suffering during most of that time.
Plus the channel's rather friendly treatment of the religion likely has a lot to do with the Green brothers being producers. John especially is rather biased toward Christianity.
Topher S
Thanks for the comment. I was unaware of this history.
As you might imagine, even as a Christian I'm not a fan of the Inquisition or the Crusades.
Understandably so. When Oliver Cromwell was in power in England from 1653 to 1658 as Lord Protector, he had theatre banned because he deemed it to be sinful and immoral. Cromwell was, unsurprisingly, a Puritan.
@@petehill7280 And when Christians came to power in Rome they ended formal theatre. One of many times theatre was censored in the name of religion. Source: working toward my Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts, got my AA.
Watching this thinking cool cool, this Hildegard sounds rad and then all of a sudden OH WAIT I've sung her compositions before! They are truly lovely!
at 0:32 when I hear "in an unremarkable spot", I think Hamilton. And immediately stop studying to spend an hour writing this:
How does a well read, sassy, nun from an abbey in Saxon happen to publish works in Latin, packed with themes of chastity? By providence her omnibus grew taller, and she became a renowned scholar.
This smooth talker, lady author who loved the Father got a lot farther by making herself smarter, by reading with great ardor, by making her prose sharper. Wrote poetry and plays filled with violence and chaste martyrs.
One fateful day came. She came across a play, by a man from ancient Rome. I think Terrance was his name. Thought “This bro is dope, but he is just too profane. So I’ll write my own refrain, a testament to my faith!”
Showed her work to the Abbess, who said “This is really great, man.
You should keep on writing. Tell em’ what you have to say, fam.
Show the congregation. His holiness, we will proclaim.
Let your words glorify His name.
What’s your name, man?”
Hrotsvitha the canoness.
My name is Hrotsvitha the cannoness.
And I’m bringin drama back. Oh, yes.
Just you wait. Just you wait.
thank you for "super low-key wrap party" just loved thinking about those nuns acting out the virtues and the modern theatre context...
You forgot the most important thing about Hildegarde: She allows a Holy Site to add its adjacency bonus to Science generation.
Patrick Reding This is a quality civ joke 👌👌👌
Who Knew? So Few!
Practical example of why I love the CC-comments!
as a musician i'd only ever heard of hildegarde's name in the context of her revolutionary compositions... good to know she was revolutionary in other settings too!!!
yesssss Hildegard is my fave. I'm glad to learn about Hrosvitha, though! I'd never heard of her :O
I knew what a canoness was thanks to the Sisters of Battle. They get actual cannons.
I love crash course theatre! Would love a crash course ART HISTORY :)
my mum is kind of obsessed with Hildegard von Bingen (more the plants stuff though) and I never knew she was also a playwright?! so interesting!
The Ordo Virtutem is gorgeous, totally worth it if you can ever see it in concert. That massive cast of virtues is often cut down to just the key players, and the Devil does not sing - according to Hildegard, song was divine, and he could not produce it.
Dude, the whole time, you were there enriching that garden...i feel homeful
The Hildegard museum in Bingen is fascinating-she was a multifaceted genius. Highly recommend if traveling along the Rhine.
Contempt for the world is a virtue? I never realized I was so virtuous!
This is so good
If your old enough... Good thing beer is allowed as of 16 in Germany (or at least it was, when I was growing up, but who knows).
This video is missing from the Theater playlist. Just FYI!
I miss Thoth. :)
It's very interesting to hear about the history of theatre in the West but I'm looking forward to finding out what was happening around this point in time in the rest of the world.
You guys should do a History of Literature series from oral traditions all the way up to the budding Post-postmodern/New Sincerity movements.
We need a new Thoth. Dionysis hasn't appeared in a while, so where's he gone?
Didn't know Mike Rugnetta did CC Theater. Tell me you brought back Thoth!
IDK if anyone from CC will see this but this video is not in the playlist for CC Theater.
great channel 🙏🙏🙏
Please crash course continue the mythology series
Remember kids, chastity works 50% of the time, every time. Especially when they have no idea how sex works. Trust me.
That´s where the name Roswita comes from? That´s a lot better than I´d ignorantly assumed :-)
This one is missing on the playlist
CrashCourse Please do a video about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
What about Eastern drama? Aren't Chinese sources also well documented?
Given that the opening shows several forms of Japanese theatre (kabuki and bunraku at least) and that we've already had a look at Sanskrit theatre, I'd say we'll get to it in due time. We're only a quarter of the way through.
Western and Eastern drama have very different tales and developments, so I'm guessing they're telling one story, and then they'll tell another.
Do hestroy of pirates
Wow, I really like your videos, they are great! (And I mean the British grade of "great", not just the American "great" 😄)
Just two side notes: the big beer mugs (1 litre) are Bavarian ones, in Lower Saxony (thats also where I come from) we just have 0,3l glasses without handles 😅 and the pronunciation of Gandersheim was good, except from the break: It's Ganders-heim, not Gander-sheim.
If you proceed with German history (I think you will come to the point with Hans Sachs later), you can contact me, if you want, and I can help you a bit, and even when it's just cutting out the wrong cliches about Germany or the pronunciation ;)
It’s one
Hi Mike! I had a report on morality plays for my drama class for my major in creative writing (with particular attention on the medieval morality play, The Summoning of Everyman, aka Elckerlijc in Dutch). I'd like to know if Hildegarde's morality play is older than Everyman, which my teacher claimed to be the (only?) oldest surviving/oldest known medival drama. ((Also, it's so fascinating to see that there are female playwrights during the medieval period!))
Everyman is 15th century so Hildegarde's should be older.
Someone needs to gif 'Sister please!'
Do other people notice his voice getting a lot quieter in the outro, so it's hard to hear over the music? Or is it something about my own speakers?
Timothy McDaniel different mic.
And where are Study Skills videos?
terrance and phillip?
Terence Trent D'arby ?
Educational!
Gonna get into Punch and Judy?
The Commedia dell'arte will have to come first since Punch is a derivation of Pulcinella.
Its not gundershime its goonders highm
It is pronounced Gunders-highm, more or less.
I love it
*_...not a canonix or cannix..._*
Hi
wasn't puppet theater BIG in the middle ages, what is this performa-elitism?
Hello
hi
What is a cannoness?
A female cannon of course.😒
Where is literature?
SNL is terrible
FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST!!!!!!
your not First i am first