Description
Book SynopsisBenedictine 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 ContentsSelected Writings - Hildegard of Bingen - Translated by Mark Atherton Introduction:
I. Life and Career
II. Hildegard in Her Time
III. Hildegard's Writings
Further Reading
Select Discography
Chronology
Translator's Note
Know the Ways1. Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux
2. The Action of the Will (from
Scivias)
3. Redemption (from
Scivias)
4. Letter to Odo of Soissons
5. The Trinity (from
Scivias)
6. Letter to Pope Eugenius III
Struggles for Independence7. Songs for Saint Disibod
8. Letter to Hartwig of Bremen
9. Song for Saint Ursula
10. The Trials of the Soul (from
Scivias)
11. Songs for Saint Rupert
12. The Departure of Richardis of Strade
13. The First Version of
The Play of the Virtues (from
Scivias)
The Sibyl of the Rhine14. Three Political Letters
15. Songs for the Dedication of a Church
16. Teachings on the Church (from
Scivias)
17. Letter to Elisabeth of Schönau
18. Gertrud of Stahleck
19. Letter to the Abbess of Bamberg
In Praise of Creation20. The Cosmic Egg (from
Scivias)
21. The Cosmos (from
Causes and Cures)
22. Gemstones (from
Physica)
23. Songs from
Symphonia24. Two Christmas Homilies
Allegories of Justice and Love25. The Iron Mountain (from
Scivias)
26. The Man Looking East and South (from
The Book of Life's Merits)
27. The Seven Vices and Virtues (from
The Book of Life's Merits)
28. The Voice from Heaven (from
The Book of Life's Merits)
29. The Unknown Language
30. Allegorical Letters
31. A Vision of Love (from
The Book of Divine Works)
Hildegard's Life and Influence32. Queries and Requests: Selected Letters to Hildegard
33. From
The Life of Hildegard, Book 2, by Theoderich of Echternach
34. Gebeno of Eberbach: The
Pentachronon35. From the Canonization Protocol
Notes
Glossary
