> We at Yale have been playing on some of the Ghetto Warz packets in
> practice this past week, and people are bitching way too much about
> Hroswitha. She's important as the first German female poet and some
> of her work is perhaps influential on the Faust legend. It's a
> difficult question for someone not versed in medieval literature,
> surely. However, would you fellas even be complaining about Hrosvitha
> if her name weren't strange to modern American ears (not to mention
> spelled in at least 6 different ways) and if she weren't from
> the "Dark Ages"? I doubt it.
Once again: A tossup that no one gets is, empirically, too hard. Whether
people SHOULD know the answer is irrelevant.