But what bearing, it may be asked, had Court life on the life of the nun Roswitha in the convent of Gandersheim?
An edition of Roswitha had been published at Nuremberg in 1501, so that Erasmus may well have taken his model at first-hand.
Roswitha was greeted by the world of the Renaissance as the "German Muse."
Roswitha, on the other hand, avowedly wrote for the literary world, and with a special end in view as regards that world.
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!
