Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life

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Routledge, Jan 4, 2002 - History - 244 pages

Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music.

 

Contents

Plates
Life and Death
World and Cloister
Opportunities and Constraints
The Ways of
The Subtleties of Nature
Celestial Harmonies
Man and the Cosmos
Admonition and Advice
Worldly Discords
Potent Infirmities
Notes
Select bibliography and discography
Index

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About the author (2002)

Sabina Flanagan is Visiting Research Fellow in History at the University of Adelaide