1st Edition

Hildegard of Bingen A Book of Essays

Edited By Maud Burnett McInerney Copyright 1998
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

    MAUDBURNETT MCINERNEY