{"product_id":"hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-9780859914895","title":"Hrotsvit of Gandersheim","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eKATHARINA WILSON\u003c\/i\u003eteaches at the University of Georgia.","brand":"Katharina Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280221810939,"sku":"9780859914895","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780859914895_68b607f2-d60d-48af-aab5-b5eaf1caf441.jpg?v=1772483205","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-9780859914895","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}