Gandersheim, Hrotswith Von

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Hrotswith Von Gandersheim - 10th-century German dramatist, a nun. Of a noble Saxon family, Hrotswith was well educated. Her long epic poems—one including a fragment on Emperor Otto I, one on the founding of the abbey of G...