Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life

by Sabina Flanagan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415185516
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/09/1998
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sabina Flanagan is Visiting Research Fellow in History at the University of Adelaide

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

It is the great virtue of Sabina Flanagan's cool, scholarly, and reflective biography that it sets her story so firmly in her own age. . . . A woman of electrifying visionary power, fascinating, often enigmatic and clearly of great presence, she was also a woman with a will and prejudices of her own. . . . It is as such, wrinkles and all, that Sabina Flanagan presents her to us, and we must be grateful for the historical balance of her picture.

New York Review of Books