Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual pre-eminence. Her importance cannot be overestimated: she is the first poet of Saxony; the first known dramatist of Christianity (indeed the first known woman dramatist of any time); and a woman displaying erudition and wit in an essentially...
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Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.
Introduction1Manuscripts1Biography2Works9Legends19Basilius21Pelagius29Dramas41Letter to the Patrons of this Book43Dulcitius45Calimachus54Abraham66Sapientia81Poem: Saint John98Epics101Gesta Oddonis101Primordia108Interpretive Essay111Select Bibliography123Index129
