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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2021

Jennifer Bain
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
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This introduction provides an overview of the collection of thirteen chapters on the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179). The editor compares the content and style of this volume with two earlier multiauthored collections of essays on Hildegard of Bingen (Voice of the Living Light and Brill’s A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen) and enumerates the range of publications, both in print and online, which necessitates an updated study. The volume is organized into three main sections: Hildegard’s life and monastic context, considering the education of women religious in medieval Germany; her writings and reputation, focusing on her visionary and theological output (Scivias, Liber vitae meritorum, and Liber divinorum operum), her extensive correspondence, her sermonizing, her scientific and medical texts, and the reception of her works in subsequent centuries; and finally her music, manuscripts, illuminations and scribes, engaging with the materiality of the transmission of Hildegard’s output. The author closes by discussing potential new areas of Hildegard research, brought to light in various chapters throughout the volume.

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Further Reading

Benedict XVI, Pope. “Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.” May 10, 2012. VIS. Vatican Information Service. Holy See Press Office. http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2012/05/decrees-of-congregation-for-causes-of_11.html.Google Scholar
Benedict XVI, Pope. “Apostolic Letter Proclaiming Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Professed Nun of the Order of Saint Benedict, a Doctor of the Universal Church.” October 7, 2012. www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_letters/documents/hf_ben-xvi_apl_20121007_ildegarda-bingen.html.Google Scholar
Embach, Michael and Wallner, Martina. Conspectus der Handschriften Hildegards von Bingen. Münster: Aschendorff, 2013.Google Scholar
Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, Stoudt, Debra L., and Ferzoco, George, eds. A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Leiden: Brill, 2014.Google Scholar
Meconi, Honey. Hildegard of Bingen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Newman, Barbara. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Silvas, Anna, ed. and trans. Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.Google Scholar

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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
  • Online publication: 28 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108573832.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
  • Online publication: 28 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108573832.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
  • Online publication: 28 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108573832.001
Available formats
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