Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine

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University of California Press, Jan 20, 1998 - History - 320 pages
Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things.

With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history.
 

Contents

1 A poor little female
1
2 The Feminine Divine
42
3 The Woman and the Serpent
89
4 Daughters of Eve
121
5 The Mother of God
156
6 The Bride of Christ
196
7 Sister of Wisdom
250
Bibliography
281
Discography
297
Index
299
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Barbara Newman is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University.

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