Hrotsvit of Gandersheim presents an aged emperor Otto the Great with her Gesta Oddonis, under the eyes of Abbess Gerberga. After a 1501 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer. Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, c. 935 – after 973. 10th-century German secular canoness, dramatist and poetess who lived at Gandersheim Abbey.

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