Contribution to Book
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca 935-ca. 975)
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Publisher
Baker Academic Press
Abstract
One manuscript produced in Saxony late in the tenth century or early in the eleventh, the Emmeram-Munich Codex, provide nearly everything that is known about Hrotsvit. She was a canoness at the imperial abbey of Gandersheim, who in the second half of the tenth century wrote eight religious verse narratives, a brief prayer in verse, six plays, a poem depicting scenes from the Apocalypse, and two biographical/historical verse narrative -all in Latin.
Chapter of
Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters
Editor
Marion Ann Taylor Agnes Choi
Citation Information
Brown, Phyllis"Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca 935-ca. 975)." Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters. Ed. Marion Ann Taylor and Agnes Choi. Baker Academic Press, 2012.
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