Gandersheim

The famous nun and poet Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, who was perhaps too young to have known Eadgyth personally (she was 15 when the queen died), says she was highly esteemed for her personal qualities.

The life of an Anglo-Saxon princess 2010

The few medieval women authors we do know about for certain seem often to be marginalized and their works hard to find in translation; there is exactly one volume of translations of works of the tenth-century Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, the first Latin dramatist since Antiquity, currently in print as of this writing.

Invisible Women Leigh 2008

The few medieval women authors we do know about for certain seem often to be marginalized and their works hard to find in translation; there is exactly one volume of translations of works of the tenth-century Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, the first Latin dramatist since Antiquity, currently in print as of this writing.

Archive 2008-06-15 Leigh 2008

I will write tonight to my cousin in Bad Gandersheim.

The House on Kronenstrasse 2005

I do know that we ended up retreating to Bad Gandersheim, in the Harz Mountains, where we stayed with a distant cousin.

The House on Kronenstrasse 2005

I do know that we ended up retreating to Bad Gandersheim, in the Harz Mountains, where we stayed with a distant cousin.

The House on Kronenstrasse 2005

I will write tonight to my cousin in Bad Gandersheim.

The House on Kronenstrasse 2005

We're not sure of Hrotswitha's age when she entered the convent at Gandersheim, but we do know that she came from a noble family; Gandersheim accepted only noblewomen.

Medieval Women I Adore - Installment 4: Hrotswitha von Gandersheim Heo 2006

Her second history is a chronicle of her abbey at Gandersheim, Primordia coenobii Gandesheimensis, in which she depicts the work of the women involved in the founding and development of the abbey as central, and the men's work as secondary.

Medieval Women I Adore - Installment 4: Hrotswitha von Gandersheim Heo 2006

Hrostvitha of Gandersheim (c.930-c.1002) - Plays Gallicanus & Dulcitius (My note: She wrote a few more plays and poems listed on this post here.)

Archive 2006-04-01 Heo 2006