EW
published an entirely new departure for him, a historical novel, Helena, about the mother
of the Emperor Constantine
, who converted her son to Christianity
and is said to have discovered the cross...
Textual Features
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Christopher St John
observes that her style is colloquial, but also so spare and condensed that it is difficult to render into a language other than Latin. She combines medieval habits of latinity with using...
Performance of text
Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS
's play or pageant The Emperor Constantine, a large-scale affair of twenty-six scenes and nearly a hundred characters, was performed at the Colchester Festival.