Selected Writings
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$17.00
$15.81
Publisher
Penguin Group
Publish Date
November 01, 2001
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.28 X 7.68 X 0.76 inches | 0.53 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140436044
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Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and extremely gifted polymath. Many Germans consider her to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Mark Atherton is an author and translator known for There and Back Again: JRR Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit, Complete Old English Beginning to Intermediate Course, and Selected Writing: Hildegard of Bingen.