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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
No full textHrotsvit of Gandersheim (c. 930–1000) was canoness in the Benedictine abbey of Gandersheim in lower Saxony and prodigious author of epic poetry and drama in Latin. Her extant works include eight saint’s lives, six theatrical pieces, an historical account of deeds of Otto the Great and another of the foundation of the Abbey of Gandersheim. All of these works except for the last are transmitted by an eleventh-century manuscript from St. Emmeram in Regensburg (Munich, Bavarian State Library, Clm 14485), discovered in 1493 by German humanist Conrad Celtis. The first edition, including two woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, was published in 1501.Hrotsvit lived as a secular canoness in the Abbey of Gandersheim in lower Saxony. She had close connections with the abbess Gerberga II (949–1001) and the Royal family. Referring to the meaning of her name in Old Saxon, she declares that she, “the strong voice of Gandersheim,” wrote this book to emulate and replace the popular plays of the Roman comedian Terence, aiming to edify and entertain.</p
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A letter from Hrotsvit, nun of Gandersheim ()
No full textThis is a letter from "Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters". Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University, has, with her colleagues, collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources. She worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to develop this unique open online collection for teaching and research purposes
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A letter from Hrotsvit, nun of Gandersheim ()
No full textThis is a letter from "Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters". Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University, has, with her colleagues, collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources. She worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to develop this unique open online collection for teaching and research purposes
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A letter from Hrotsvit, nun of Gandersheim ()
No full textThis is a letter from "Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters". Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University, has, with her colleagues, collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources. She worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to develop this unique open online collection for teaching and research purposes
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A letter from Hrotsvit, nun of Gandersheim ()
No full textThis is a letter from "Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters". Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University, has, with her colleagues, collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources. She worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to develop this unique open online collection for teaching and research purposes
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A letter from Hrotsvit, nun of Gandersheim ()
No full textThis is a letter from "Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters". Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University, has, with her colleagues, collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources. She worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to develop this unique open online collection for teaching and research purposes
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A letter from Hrotsvit, nun of Gandersheim ()
No full textThis is a letter from "Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters". Epistolae is a collection of medieval Latin letters to and from women. The letters collected date from the 4th to the 13th centuries, and they are presented in their original Latin as well as in English translation. Dr. Joan Ferrante, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University, has, with her colleagues, collected and translated these letters mainly from printed sources. She worked with the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning to develop this unique open online collection for teaching and research purposes
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Dulcitius
No full textLiteratura otonske renesanse je manj znana kot tista karolinške renesanse, vendar je bilo 10. stoletje čas verske prenove, ki je ustvarila tudi vidna literarna besedila. V tem stoletju se je začelo gibanje za reformo samostanov in dediščina otonske renesanse so tudi prva srednjeveška dramska dela, ki jih je napisala Hrosvita iz Gandersheima.Literatura otonske renesanse je manj znana kot tista karolinške renesanse, vendar je bilo 10. stoletje čas verske prenove, ki je ustvarila tudi vidna literarna besedila. V tem stoletju se je začelo gibanje za reformo samostanov in dediščina otonske renesanse so tudi prva srednjeveška dramska dela, ki jih je napisala Hrosvita iz Gandersheima
Authentic Education: The Example of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
No full textThe Emmeram-Munich manuscript, produced around 980, contains nine of ten surviving verse narratives by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim arranged with her six plays, a poem depicting scenes from the apocalypse, and several prayers in verse, all contextualized by a series of prefaces, dedicatory poems, epilogues, and a letter to learned patrons ( sapientes. . . fautores ), who had read her work and encouraged her. Nearly everything we know about Hrotsvit\u27s life, education, and intentions as a writer must be gleaned from this manuscript, in which she names herself multiple times. In her preface to the legends she also names two teachers, Riccardis and her abbess, Gerberga, who was younger than Hrotsvit but more advanced in learning ( scientia provectior ). Hrotsvit specifies that Gerberga had introduced her to other authors, most learned scholars ( sapientissimis ), with whom Gerberga had studied
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca 935-ca. 975)
No full textOne 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
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