Hildegard of Bingen - A Book of Essays

Informationen zum Autor MAUDBURNETT MCINERNEY Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This collection of original essays approaches Hildegard from a variety of perspectives, including gender theory, musicology, art history, the history of science and comparative studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Maud Burnett Mcinerney
• Assisted by: Maud Burnett Mcinerney (Editor), McInerney Maud Burnett (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780815325888
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2588-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Mysticism, Christianity, mysticism, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Gender studies: women, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: historical, political and military, Christian Mysticism