Selected Writings (Hildegard of Bingen),9780140436044

Selected Writings (Hildegard of Bingen)

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ISBN13: 9780140436044
ISBN10: 0140436049
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it is largely for her apocalyptic and mystical writings that she is remembered. This volume includes selections from her three visionary works, her treatises on medicine and the natural world, her devotional songs, and fascinating letters to prominent figures of her time. Dealing with such eternal subjects as the relationship between humans and nature, and men and women, Hildegard's works show her to be a wide-ranging thinker who created such fresh, startling images and ideas that her writings have been compared to Dante and Blake.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Life and Career ix
Hildegard in Her Time xvi
Hildegard's Writings xxv
Further Reading xlv
Select Discography xlix
Chronology li
Translator's Note lvii
KNOW THE WAYS
Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux
3(3)
The Action of the Will (from Scivias)
6(3)
Redemption (from Scivias)
9(12)
Letter to Odo of Soissons
21(2)
The Trinity (from Scivias)
23(8)
Letter to Pope Eugenius III
31(4)
STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE
Songs for Saint Disibod
35(2)
Letter to Hartwig of Bremen
37(2)
Song for Saint Ursula
39(2)
The Trials of the Soul (from Scivias)
41(6)
Songs for Saint Rupert
47(4)
The Departure of Richardis of Stade
51(2)
The First Version of The Play of the Virtues (from Scivias)
53(12)
THE SIBYL OF THE RHINE
Three Political Letters
65(4)
Songs for the Dedication of a Church
69(2)
Teachings on the Church (from Scivias)
71(8)
Letter to Elisabeth of Schonau
79(3)
Gertrud of Stahleck
82(2)
Letter to the Abbess of Bamberg
84(5)
IN PRAISE OF CREATION
The Cosmic Egg (from Scivias)
89(4)
The Cosmos (from Causes and Cures)
93(13)
Gemstones (from Physica)
106(9)
Songs from Symphonia
115(8)
Two Christmas Homilies
123(8)
ALLEGORIES OF JUSTICE AND LOVE
The Iron Mountain (from Scivias)
131(5)
The Man Looking East and South (from The Book of Life's Merits)
136(3)
The Seven Vices and Virtues (from The Book of Life's Merits)
139(7)
The Voice from Heaven (from The Book of Life's Merits)
146(15)
The Unknown Language
161(2)
Allegorical Letters
163(8)
A Vision of Love (from The Book of Divine Works)
171(8)
HILDEGARD'S LIFE AND INFLUENCE
Queries and Requests; Selected Letters to Hildegard
179(9)
From The Life of Hildegard, Book 2, by Theoderich of Echternach
188(5)
Gebeno of Eberbach: The Pentachronon
193(3)
From the Canonization Protocol
196(9)
Notes 205(32)
Glossary 237

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