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.