Gerberg introduced her, noted for her great learning, to Roman writers. Otto I the Great, emperor and brother of Gerberg, penned a history, one of poetical subjects of Hrotsvit in her Carmen de Gestis Oddonis Imperatoris, which encompasses the period to the coronation of Otto I in 962. Hrotsvit studied under Rikkardis and Gerberg, daughter of Henry the Fowler, king. She attests her name as Saxon for "strong voice."Īfter antiquity, some critics consider her, who wrote in Latin, as the first person to compose drama in Latin-influenced western Europe. With a name also spelled Hroswitha, Hrotsvit, or Hrosvit, this a 10th-century German secular canoness and dramatist, born into nobility, lived and worked in a community, the abbey of Bad Gandersheim in modern-day Lower Saxony, Germany. Her plays glorify chastity and feature women who pursue virginity above all other virtues.On ancient Roman plays, German nun and poet Roswitha ( Hrotsvitha) (circa 935-circa 1000) modeled dialogs that represent an early stage in the revival of European drama. Her manuscripts lay in the convent for hundreds of years until their discovery and publication at the turn of the 16thcentury.
She entered the abbey in her early twenties and remained in Gandersheim until her death, date suspected around 973. While her birthdate cannot be pinpointed exactly, she was born between 912 and 940 into a noble family. She was especially influenced by the playwright Terence. He noted her deep knowledge of the scriptures, philosophers both Christian and Roman, Christian texts, and theater. The Cardinal Gasquet considered her plays the best of the feudal age, an even more impressive feat due to Germany’s reputation as the least civilized of regions during this time period. She lived in a convent in Gandersheim and followed the Order of Saint Benedict. Roswitha von Gandersheim was a female playwright and nun who lived in the tenth century, completing her works in Latin.
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