{"product_id":"hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-a-florilegium-of-her-works-paperback","title":"Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of Her Works - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharina Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHrotsvit 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.\u003cbr\u003e The present volume contains a selection of Hrotsvit's works in Englishtranslation, together with an interpretative essay, critical introduction, and scholarly apparatus.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor KATHARINA WILSONteaches at the University of Georgia.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.52 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130019713159,"sku":"9780859914895","price":37.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6613b619a21da18d79a8d6dcbdbb8326.webp?v=1732607613","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-a-florilegium-of-her-works-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}