Hrotsvit presents Emperor Otto the Great with her Gesta Oddonis, in the background Abbess Gerberga, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, 1501. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, (c. 935 – c. 1002), was a 10th-century German secular canoness, as well as a dramatist and poet who lived and worked at Gandersheim Abbey in modern-day Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony, established by the Ottonian dynasty. She wrote in Latin, and is considered by some to be the first person since antiquity to compose drama in the Latin West.

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