Selected Writings

Name: Selected Writings
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ISBN: 9780140436044

ISBN-10: 0140436049

ISBN-13: 9780140436044

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mark Atherton, Oliver Davies, Hildegard Bingen, Hildegard of Bingen Staff, Oliver Davies

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction


Further Reading


Select Discography


Chronology


Translator's Note



Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux



The Action of the Will (from Scivias)



Redemption (from Scivias)



Letter to Odo of Soissons



The Trinity (from Scivias)



Letter to Pope Eugenius III



Songs for Saint Disibod



Letter to Hartwig of Bremen



Song for Saint Ursula



The Trials of the Soul (from Scivias)



Songs for Saint Rupert



The Departure of Richardis of Stade



The First Version of the Play of the Virtues (from Scivias)



Three Political Letters



Songs for the Dedication of a Church



Teachings on the Church (from Scivias)



Letter to Elisabeth of Schonau



Gertrud of Stahleck



Letter to the Abbess of Bamberg



The Cosmic Egg (from Scivias)



The Cosmos (from Causes and Cures)



Gemstones (from Physica)



Songs from Symphonia



Two Christmas Homilies



The Iron Mountain (from Scivias)



The Man Looking East and South (from the Book of Life's Merits)



The Seven Vices and Virtues (from the Book of Life's Merits)



The Voice from Heaven (from The Book of Life's Merits)



The Unknown Language



Allegorical Letters



A Vision of Love (from The Book of Divine Works)



Queries of Requests: Selected Letters to Hildegard



From the Life of Hildegard, Book 2, by Theoderich of Echternach



Gebeno of Eberbach: The Pentachronon



From the Canonization Protocol


Notes


Glossary