Roswitha

How to use Roswitha in a sentence

• The argument is one employed previously by the Saxon nun Roswitha in the tenth century in her comedy Paphnutius.

  Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam | Ephraim Emerton

• An edition of Roswitha had been published at Nuremberg in 1501, so that Erasmus may well have taken his model at first-hand.

  Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam | Ephraim Emerton

• Roswitha was greeted by the world of the Renaissance as the "German Muse."

  Women of the Teutonic Nations | Hermann Schoenfeld

• The child I will leave with you, Roswitha—No, you would forget him if a man so much as looked through the door at you!

  The Vinland Champions | Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

• It is in a spirit far different from that of her panegyric on the emperor Otho that Roswitha writes her dramas.

  Of Six Medival Women | Alice Kemp-Welch