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Excerpt from A Study of the Thaïs Legend With Special Reference to Hrothsvitha's "Paphnutius" A Thesis
It cannot be my purpose to attempt anything so ambitious as that here. My aim will be to trace the Thais legend from its Obscure beginnings to Hrotsvitha, through the Middle Ages, to its resuscitation by Anatole France and his imitators. Hrots vitha's version will be especially stressed and made more promi nent by attempting an English translation Of her play, not only because this was the first purely literary use made of the Thais legend but because it was Of great in?uence on Anatole France 's novel. Although it is a very difficult and hazardous matter to try to Show analogies between two authors with such divergent aims and difference in complexity, separated by more than a millenium, an attempt will nevertheless be made to point out a few of the more obvious details in which the French novelist followed our holy nun.
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