Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Subtitle: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances
Contributors: Phyllis R. Brown (Editor); Linda A. McMillin (Editor); Katharina M. Wilson (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: April 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780802089625
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Women and literature; Literary Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; ca. 935-ca. 975; Christian literature, Latin (M; Medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; German; History and criticism; Germany; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; To 1500; Women Authors; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Christianity and literature; History; Hrotsvitha,
First sentence: The Gesta Ottonis, which tells the story of Saxon rule in Germany from the accession of Henry I to Otto I's imperial coronation in Rome, is in many ways the most perplexing work of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's literry oeuvre.