{"product_id":"hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-katharina-wilson-9780859914895","title":"Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of Her Works","description":"Selection of the works of Hrotsvit, the first-known woman dramatist, containing legends, dramas, and epics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 oeuvre, 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 KATHARINA WILSONteaches at the University of Georgia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katharina Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0859914895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780859914895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell \u0026amp; Brewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.31w x 0.43d","brand":"Katharina Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069412995327,"sku":"9780859914895","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb17ecad-3326-4a5c-93e9-1a5202f30c30.jpg?v=1685424573","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-katharina-wilson-9780859914895","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}