Hildegard of Bingen

A Book of Essays
Herausgeber: Mcinerney, Maud Burnett

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780815325888
• ISBN-10: 0815325886
• Artikelnr.: 22370175

Autorenporträt

MAUDBURNETT MCINERNEY

Inhaltsangabe

Language and Self-Representation in the Letters of Hildegard of Bingen,
Beverlee Sian Rapp * Hildegard as a Medieval Zoologist: The Animals of the
Physica, Kenneth Kitchell and Irven Resnick * Hildegard of Bingen's Causes
and Cures: A Radical Reminist Response to the Doctor-Cook Binary, Marcia
Kathleen Chamberlian * A Poetry of Science: Relating Body and Soul in the
Scivias, Jan S. Emerson * Where is the Body? Images of Eve and Mary in
Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias, Rebecca L.R. Garber * Problem of Male
Virginity in the Symphonia, Maud Burnett McInerney * Musical Reading of
Hildegard's Responsory Spiritui Sancto, Kathryn Bumpass * Rhenish
Confluences: Hildgegard and the 14th-Century Dominicans, Leonard Hindsley *
Jewish Mother-in-Law: Hildegard's Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale,
Christine Rose * Frederick S. Roden