Abstract
As Gary Macy argues, virginity and clerical celibacy are central to Hrotsvit's theology. Virginity is also, more specifically, at the core of her monastic identity. As an author - more precisely as a female author - Hrotsvit responds to (even as she occasionally critiques and problematizes) the political, cultural, spiritual, and sexual desires of her monastic family at Gandersheim. Her response contributes to the construction of an active virginity that often rewrites secular sexuality and gender within and for that context. While modern critics commonly note the recurrence of sexuality and gender as themes in her works, they focus more rarely on the extent to which desire underwrites the very nature of her female monastic literacy. Keywords:clerical celibacy; female monastic literacy; Gandersheim; gender; Hrotsvit's theology; monastic identity; secular sexuality; virginity
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