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9780815325888

Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815325888

  • ISBN10:

    0815325886

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-04-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine. These essays-written specifically for this volume-approach Hildegard from a variety of perspectives including gender theory, musicology, art history, the history of science, and comparative studies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix(2)
List of Abbreviations xi(2)
Preface: Sabina Flanagan xiii(4)
Introduction: Hildegard of Bingen, Prophet and Polymath xvii
Maud Burnett McInerney
THE SOCIAL WORLD AND THE NATURAL WORLD 3(74)
A Woman Speaks: Language and Self-Representation in Hildegard's Letters
3(22)
Beverlee Sian Rapp
Hildegard as a Medieval "Zoologist": The Animals of the Physica
25(28)
Kenneth F. Kitchell
Irven M. Resnick
Hildegard of Bingen's Causes and Cures: A Radical Feminist Response to the Doctor-Cook Binary
53(24)
Marcia Kathleen Chamberlain
WORLDS BEYOND: POETRY, VISIONS, AND MUSIC 77(100)
A Poetry of Science: Relating Body and Soul in the Scivias
77(26)
Jan S. Emerson
Where Is the Body? Images of Eve and Mary in the Scivias
103(30)
Rebecca L. R. Garber
Like a Virgin: The Problem of Male Virginity in the Symphonia
133(22)
Maud Burnett McInerney
A Musical Reading of Hildegard's Responsory "Spiritui Sancto"
155(22)
Kathryn L. Bumpass
ECHOES OF HILDEGARD: THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY AND BEYOND 177(78)
Rhenish Confluences: Hildegard and the Fourteenth-Century Dominicans
177(14)
Leonard P. Hindsley
The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale
191(36)
Christine M. Rose
Two "Sisters in Wisdom": Hildegard of Bingen, Christina Rossetti, and Feminist Theology
227(28)
Frederick S. Roden
Contributors 255

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