Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bain, Jennifer

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Produktbeschreibung

This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological treatises, sermons, and scientific and medical texts. Aimed at advanced university students and new Hildegard researchers, the essays provide a broad context for Hildegard's life and monastic setting, and offer comprehensive discussions on each of the main areas of her output. Engagingly written by experts in medieval history, theology, German literature, musicology, and the history of medicine, the essays are grounded in Hildegard's twelfth-century context, and investigate her output within its monastic and liturgical environments, her reputation during and after her life, and the materiality of the transmission of her works, considering aspects of manuscript layout, illumination, and scribal practices at her Rupertsberg monastery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108644716
• Artikelnr.: 66179391

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen Jennifer
Bain; Part I. Life and Monastic Context: 1. The life of Hildegard of Bingen
(1098-1179) Michael Embach; 2. Living and working in a twelfth-century
women's monastic community Alison Beach; 3. Literacy and learning in the
lives of women religious of medieval Germany Lori Kruckenberg; Part II.
Writings and Reputation: 4. Hildegard of Bingen's theology James Ginther;
5. Reading Hildegard of Bingen's letters Christopher Fletcher; 6. Hildegard
of Bingen and the patriarchs, preaching greenness Peter Loewen; 7.
Hildegard of Bingen: Illness and healing Faith Wallis; 8. The Pentachronon
and Hildegard of Bingen's reputation as prophet Magda Hayton; 9. The
context and reception of Hildegard of Bingen's visions Wendy Love Anderson;
Part III. Music, Manuscripts, Illuminations and Scribes: 10. Music, liturgy
and intertextuality in Hildegard of Bingen's chant repertory Jennifer Bain;
11. The Ordo virtutum and Benedictine monasticism Alison Altstatt; 12.
Picturing Hildegard of Bingen's sight: Illuminating her visions Nathaniel
Campbell; 13. Hildegard of Bingen and her scribes Margot Fassler.