Ava, writing in the mid-twelfth century, composed five poems in German and so became the first woman to author a literary work in a European vernacular.
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Handschriftencensus · Eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters · Ava: 'Antichrist'. Vgl. Edgar Papp, ...
Ava is the first woman whose name we know who wrote in German. She wrote her poem - or poems - on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ sometime ...