The frontispiece shows Hrotsvit, kneeling in her nun's robes, presenting a handsomely-bound copy of her own works to the Emperor Otho (or Otto) II
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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
HG's life coincided with what is sometimes called the Ottonian Renaissance after a pair of particularly enlightened rulers, Holy Roman Emperors Otho (or Otto) Iand II
. The convent library contained manuscripts of the...