Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays

by Maud Burnett McInerney (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138001695
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/22/2014
Series:	Garland Medieval Casebooks
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Preface Sabina Flanagan xiii

Introduction: Hildegard of Bingen, Prophet and Polymath Maud Burnett McInerney xvii

The Social World and the Natural World

A Woman Speaks: Language and Self-Representation in Hildegard's Letters Beverlee Sian Rapp 3

Hildegard as a Medieval "Zoologist": The Animals of the Physica Kenneth F. Kitchell Irven M. Resnick 25

Hildegard of Bingen's Causes and Cures: A Radical Feminist Response to the Doctor-Cook Binary Marcia Kathleen Chamberlain 53

Worlds Beyond: Poetry, Visions, and Music

A Poetry of Science: Relating Body and Soul in the Scivias Jan S. Emerson 77

Where Is the Body? Images of Eve and Mary in the Scivias Rebecca L. R. Garber 103

Like a Virgin: The Problem of Male Virginity in the Symphonia Maud Burnett McInerney 133

A Musical Reading of Hildegard's Responsory "Spiritui Sancto" Kathryn L. Bumpass 155

Echoes of Hildegard: The Fourteenth Century and Beyond

Rhenish Confluences: Hildegard and the Fourteenth-Century Dominicans Leonard P. Hindsley 177

The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale Christine M. Rose 191

Two "Sisters in Wisdom": Hildegard of Bingen, Christina Rossetti, and Feminist Theology Frederick S. Roden 227

Contributors 255

Editorial Reviews

Hildegard (1098-1179) was a German abbess and prophet whose interests included music, theology, zoology, and medicine. Here, ten essays commissioned for her 900th birthday consider her work in terms of the social and the natural world; poetry, visions, and music; and echoes of her in the 14th century and beyond. They address language and self- representation in her letters, images of Eve and Mary, the Jewish mother-in-law, and other aspects. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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