Hrotsvit, Opera Omnia

Description

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." Editoris praefatio Conspectus codicum et siglorum Liber primus: Legendae Hrotsvithae praefatio Libri primi pars prior Prologus [I] ad Gerbergam abbatissam Maria Ascensio Gongolfus Pelagius Theophilus Appendix: Benedictio ad mensam Libri primi pars posterior Prologus [II] ad Gerbergam abbatissam Basilius Dionysius Agnes Libri primi epilogus Liber secundus: Dramata Hrotsvithae praefatio Epistola eiusdem ad quosdam sapientes Libri secundi pars prior Gallicanus (I) Gallicanus (II) Dulcitius Calimachus Abraham Libri secundi pars posterior Pafnutius Sapientia Appendix: Iohannes sive Tituli in libro Apocalypsis Liber tertius: Carmina historica Libri tertii pars prior Hrotsvithae praefatio ad Gerbergam abbatissam Eiusdem prologus ad Ottonem [I] imperatorem Eiusdem prologus ad Ottonem [II] imperatorem Gesta Ottonis Libri tertii pars posterior Prooemium Primordia coenobii Gandeshemensis Index nominum