Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause et Cure

Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise.

Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook;it is a densely layered work woven together from diverse threads. It begins with a chapter on cosmology which leads to consideration of the human being as a small-scale copy of the universe. From h...