1. Translator’s Note
2. Introduction by His Eminence Cardinal Gasquet
3. Critical Preface by Christopher St.John
4. The Prefaces of Roswitha
5. Gallicanus
6. Dulcitius
7. Callimachus
8. Abraham
9. Paphnutius
10. Sapientia
11. Note on the Acting of the Plays

Translator’s Note

The works consulted include the following:

• Hrotsvithae Opera: Edited by Paul Winterfeld.
• Hrotsvithae Opera: Edited by H. L. Schurzfleisch.
• Hrotsvithae Opera: Edited by Conrad Celtes (Nurnberg, 1 501).
• Patrologiae Cursus Completus: J. P. Migne (vol.137).
• Abraham: Translated into French by C. Cuzin, with critical preface.
• Theatre de Roswitha: Charles Magnin.
• Origines du theatre Moderne: Charles Magnin.
• Antiquitates Gandersheimensis: Leuckfeld.
• Six Medieval Women: Alice Kemp Welch.

I am much indebted to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, O.S.B., Superioress of Stanbrook Abbey, and to the Reverend Paul Bonnet of Lyons University, for assistance in the work of translation.

—Christopher St.John

Introduction