Selected Writings

Hildegard of Bingen, Mark Atherton, Mark Atherton , Mark Atherton

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Penguin Classics
09 July 2001

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Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it is largely for her apocalyptic and mystical writings that she is remembered. This volume includes selections from her three visionary works, her treatises on medicine and the natural world, her devotional songs, and fascinating letters to prominent figures of her time. Dealing with such eternal subjects as the relationship between humans and nature, and men and women, Hildegard's works show her to be a wide-ranging thinker who created such fresh, startling images and ideas that her writings have been compared to Dante and Blake.

By: Hildegard of Bingen
Notes by: Mark Atherton
Introduction by: Mark Atherton
Translated by: Mark Atherton
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780140436044
ISBN 10: 0140436049
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 July 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Selected Writings - Hildegard of Bingen - Translated by Mark Atherton Introduction: I. Life and Career II. Hildegard in Her Time III. Hildegard's Writings Further Reading Select Discography Chronology Translator's Note Know the Ways 1. Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux 2. The Action of the Will (from Scivias) 3. Redemption (from Scivias) 4. Letter to Odo of Soissons 5. The Trinity (from Scivias) 6. Letter to Pope Eugenius III Struggles for Independence 7. Songs for Saint Disibod 8. Letter to Hartwig of Bremen 9. Song for Saint Ursula 10. The Trials of the Soul (from Scivias) 11. Songs for Saint Rupert 12. The Departure of Richardis of Strade 13. The First Version of The Play of the Virtues (from Scivias)The Sibyl of the Rhine 14. Three Political Letters 15. Songs for the Dedication of a Church 16. Teachings on the Church (from Scivias) 17. Letter to Elisabeth of Schönau 18. Gertrud of Stahleck 19. Letter to the Abbess of Bamberg In Praise of Creation 20. The Cosmic Egg (from Scivias) 21. The Cosmos (from Causes and Cures) 22. Gemstones (from Physica) 23. Songs from Symphonia 24. Two Christmas Homilies Allegories of Justice and Love 25. The Iron Mountain (from Scivias) 26. The Man Looking East and South (from The Book of Life's Merits) 27. The Seven Vices and Virtues (from The Book of Life's Merits) 28. The Voice from Heaven (from The Book of Life's Merits) 29. The Unknown Language 30. Allegorical Letters 31. A Vision of Love (from The Book of Divine Works) Hildegard's Life and Influence 32. Queries and Requests: Selected Letters to Hildegard 33. From The Life of Hildegard, Book 2, by Theoderich of Echternach 34. Gebeno of Eberbach: The Pentachronon 35. From the Canonization Protocol Notes Glossary

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was born into a well-established noble family in Bermensheim and was given to the monastery as a young child. She became a nun and later founded her own convent at Ruperstberg. With papal approval she wrote down her visions and travelled through Germany preaching. As well as her visionary writing, she composed liturgical music and was skilled in medicine, and was canonized after her death. Mark Atherton teaches English at Regent's Park College, Oxford.