Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815325888 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 282 str.

Maud Burnett McInerney; Joyce E. Salisbury

Opis

A study of the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology, zoology and medicine. The essays approach Hildegard from a variety of perspectives including gender theory, musicology, art history and the history of science.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

MAUDBURNETT MCINERNEY