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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

A Florilegium of Her Works

By: Hrotsvitha,Katharina M. Wilson

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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

A Florilegium of Her Works

By: Hrotsvitha,Katharina M. Wilson

Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics. 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 patriarchal age, a female author in a literary field dominated by men who insisted on re-evaluating and redrawing the literary depiction of women. Discovered in the late fifteenth century, her extraordinary oeuvre, written in medieval Latin, comprises a wide variety of genres: eight legends, six dramas, and two epics, organised into three books. The present volume contains a selection of Hrotsvit's works in Englishtranslation, together with an interpretative essay, critical introduction, and scholarly apparatus. Professor KATHARINA WILSONteaches at the University of Georgia.

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Boydell & Brewer

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The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Facsimile of the First Edition (1581)

By: Hrotsvitha Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

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Facsimile of the First Edition (1581)

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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, born circa 935, was a canoness at Gandersheim, a Benedictine monastery in Saxony. She may have come from the Saxon nobility, and she had the education to refer to ancient authors like Ovid and Virgil. Hrotsvit died around the year 975. David H. Price is professor of religious studies, history, and Jewish studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These works by a tenth-century woman, who wrote plays when no one else in Europe was writing plays and who imitated the style of Terence when most people thought the classics had been forgotten, caused a literary sensation when they were first published in 1501.

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University of Illinois Press

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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

A Florilegium of Her Works

By: Hrotsvitha,Katharina M. Wilson

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Facsimile of the First Edition (1581)

By: Hrotsvitha Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

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The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim

By: Larissa Bonfante

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The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim

By: Larissa Bonfante

Called by Renaissance humanist Conrad Celtes "the German Sappho, " Hrotswitha (ca. 935 -- 1000) was a prolific author who wrote eight legends in verse, two historical epics, and six plays in rhymed prose. This corrected reprint of the 1979 New York University Press edition contains translations of Gallicanus, Dulcitius, Callimachus, Abraham, Paphnutius, and Sapientia.

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