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A Female Latin Poet and the Classical Legacy in the Middle Ages: The Remarkable Poetry of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Social Sciences 623, Calgary
In this paper, Cillian O’Hogan introduces Hrotsvit’s fascinating poetry, and situates her in the context of female intellectual culture in the Ottonian age, which reveals much greater engagement with the classical past on the part of women readers and writers than might be assumed.