Publisher's Synopsis
This volume offers a comprehensive view of Hildegard of Bingen's manifold achievements, her intellectual background and her reception in the later Middle Ages. It brings together, with full documentation, the contributions of an international group of medievalists, from diverse disciplines, to the colloquium held at the Warburg Institute on 17- 18 November 1995.
Three of the essays are devoted to the cultural landscape in which Hildegard lived and worked - her relation to the writings of the Fathers, to the schools of her own time, and to the prophetic tradition. Two others examine how, after Hildegard's death, she came to be revered as saint and prophet, and two shed new light on the transmission of her manuscripts and of the illuminations that accompany her visions. Each of the remaining essays focuses on what is new and individual in aspects of Hildegard's astonishingly varied work: in her sacred music and poetry, her astronomy, botany and medicine, and in her unprecedented uses of allegory.
The volume both pays tribute to the ninth centenary of Hildegard's birth (1098) and complements the first major study of Hildegard in our century - that of Hans Liebeschütz - which the Warburg Library, still in Hamburg, published in 1930.
Contents
Peter Dronke - - The Allegorical World- Picture of Hildegard of Bingen: Revaluations and New Problems
Albert Derolez - - The Manuscript Tradition of Hildegard of Bingen's Writings: The State of the Problem
Madeline Caviness - - Hildegard as the Designer of the Illustrations to her Works
Charles Burnett - - Hildegard in England: A Note on Hildegard's Texts in the Library of the Austin Friars in York
Angela Carlevaris - - Ildegarda e la Patristica
Robert Murray - - Prophecy in Hildegard
Constant Mews - - Hildegard and the Schools
Charles Burnett - - Hildegard of Bingen and the Science of the Stars
Danielle Jacquart - - Hildegarde et la physiologie de son temps
Laurence Moulinier - - Abbesse et agronome: Hildegarde et le savoir botanique de son temps
Walter Berschin - - Eine Offiziendichtung in der Symphonia Hildegards von Bingen: Ursula und die Elftausend Jungfrauen (carm. 44)
John Stevens - - The Musical Individuality of Hildegard's Songs: A Liturgical Shadowland
Barbara Newman - - Three- Part Invention: The Vita S. Hildegardis and Mystical Hagiography
José Carlos Santos Paz - - Aspetti della ricezione dell'opera di Ildegarda nel Duecento
