Hildegard of Bingen - A Visionary Life

Informationen zum Autor Sabina Flanagan is Visiting Research Fellow in History at the University of Adelaide Klappentext Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music. Zusammenfassung Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Life and death 2. World and Cloister 3. Opportunities and Constraints 4. The Ways of God 5. The Subtleties of Nature 6. Celestial Harmonies 7. Man and the Cosmos 8. Admonition and Advice 9. Worldly Disords 10. Potent Infirmities.

Product details

• Authors: Sabina Flanagan, Flanagan Sabina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138153240
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15324-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval