Opera omnia / Hrotsvit ; edidit Walter Berschin.

Author/creator Hrotsvitha author.
Other author Berschin, Walter, editor.
Format Book
PublicationMonachii : K.G. Saur, 2001.
Descriptionxxxiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
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Uniform titleWorks. 2001
Variant title Hrotsvit, opera omnia
SeriesBibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana
Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. ^A278064
Contents Liber 1. Legendae -- Liber 2. dramata -- Liber 3. Carmina historica
Abstract 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."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageLatin.
Issued in other formOnline version: Hrotsvitha, approximately 935-approximately 975. Works. 2001. Hrotsvit Opera omnia. Monachii : Saur, 2001
LCCN 2001350703
ISBN3598719124
ISBN9783598719127

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Joyner General Stacks PA8340 .A14 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold