Ebook {Epub PDF} Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of Her Works by Hrotsvitha

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c - c), 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. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works (Library of Medieval Women): Wilson, Katharina M., Wilson, Katharina: www.doorway.ru: Books. Buy new: $ FREE delivery: Saturday, Aug 21 on orders over $ shipped by Amazon. Ships from: www.doorway.ru by: 3. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim lived from C.E. to C.E. in Saxony (a region in northern Germany). In addition to the spelling of her name you see here, you may also see her referred to as "Roswitha," "Hrotswitha," or "Hrotsvitha." Hrotsvit lived as a canoness in the convent in Gandersheim.

Hathumoda's sisters, Gerberga (d. ) and Christine of Gandersheim, followed in her footsteps as abbesses. Another Gerberga (r. ), daughter of Judith of Bavaria, was consecrated abbess in The prefaces to Hrotsvitha's works provide the only information about her life in Gandersheim, and this information is very limited. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim wrote the first plays known to be written by a woman, and she is the first known European woman poet after Sappho. She was a canoness, poet, dramatist, and historian. Surmised from internal evidence of the writings that she was born about or , and died after , perhaps as late as Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works (Library of Medieval Women) by Wilson, Katharina M. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works (Library of Medieval Women): Wilson, Katharina M., Wilson, Katharina: www.doorway.ru: Books. Buy new: $ FREE delivery: Saturday, Aug 21 on orders over $ shipped by Amazon. Ships from: www.doorway.ru Hrotsvitha (c. –) was a secular canoness who wrote dramas and poems under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon nobles and entered Gandersheim Abbey as a canoness. She is considered the first female writer from the German Lands, the first female historian, the first person since antiquity to write dramas in the. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim was a 10th-century German secular canoness, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked at Gandersheim Abbey in modern-day Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, Germany, established by the Ottonian dynasty.[3] She wrote in Latin, and is considered by some to be the first person since antiquity to compose drama.