Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim , living in Germany in the tenth century and writing in Latin, produced six (or seven, depending on the method of counting) short plays as well as poems (legendary saints' lives, historical epics, and a dream vision).
Black and white later oval illustration of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, shown from the waist up, wearing a nun's habit, wimple, etc. A coat of arms is depicted behind her.

Milestones

Before 940

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim , Roswitha, or Hroswitha, future poet and nun (whose name is given in various different forms), was born in Germany.
Wilson, Katharina M. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. E. J. Brill.
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Gasquet, Francis Aidan et al. “Introduction”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, p. vii - xiii.
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After, perhaps long after, 973

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim , nun and poet, died, presumably in the convent of Gandersheim (or Bad Gandersheim) in Germany.
Wilson, Katharina M. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. E. J. Brill.
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1493

Renaissance humanist Conrad Celtes or Celtis unearthed the manuscript containing the poems and plays of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim , which had been totally forgotten in the several centuries since her death.
Wilson, Katharina M. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. E. J. Brill.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1501

Tenth-century Hrotsvit of Gandersheim 's Opera Hrosvite (both poems and plays) were first printed, following their rediscovery by Conrad Celtes or Celtis , with a frontispiece and six further full-page wood-cuts, at least some by Albrecht Dürer .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Gasquet, Francis Aidan et al. “Introduction”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, p. vii - xiii.
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Biography

Origins

Before 940

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim , Roswitha, or Hroswitha, future poet and nun (whose name is given in various different forms), was born in Germany.
Wilson, Katharina M. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. E. J. Brill.
145
Gasquet, Francis Aidan et al. “Introduction”. The Plays of Roswitha, translated by. Christopher St John, Benjamin Blom, p. vii - xiii.
x

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