Opera omnia / Hrotsvit ; edidit Walter Berschin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hrotsvitha, approximately 935-approximately 975.

Contributor:

Berschin, Walter

Series:

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin drama.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Hrotsvit, opera omnia

Place of Publication:

Monachii : Saur, 2001.

Summary:

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca. 935 to after 968 c.e.) wrote in Latin (ca. 962) a book of legends of the saints, inspired by Prudentius. She emulated Terence with her book of plays (ca. 965) and finished (ca. 968) with a two-part book of verse epics. This body of work, produced in a vigorous burst within a relatively short period, is preserved almost complete in a manuscript (Clm 14485) that also dates from the tenth century. The breaks in the text, deriving from the sequence of strata and from the writers who worked on it, coincide strikingly with breaks in Hrotsvit's creation. This new edition of "Opera Omnia" gives us the most authentic text possible of "the earliest German woman poet."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3598719124

OCLC:

49584305