Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life - Softcover

Flanagan, Sabina

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9780415057936: Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life

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ISBN 10: 0415057930 ISBN 13: 9780415057936

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

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Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), visionary, mystic, poet, musician, naturalist, healer and theologian, was one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Now available in paperback, Sabina Flanagan's fascinating study of Hildegard's life and work, places her writings in the context of medieval life and thought, and shows how, in an age when few women wrote more than an occasional letter, Hildegard's writings not only surpassed those of most of her male contemporaries in the range of their subject matter, but also outshone them in visionary beauty and intellectual power.

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"Sabina Flanagan's biography is a solid introductory account...."
-"Village Voice
"Flanagan's book would be the one that I would recommend as a first introduction to Hildegard."
-"Commonweal
"An excellent biography of an extraordinary medieval visionary...a fascinating book about a miraculous life."
-"Kirkus
"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
"Sabina Flanagan's biography is a solid introductory account."
-"Voice Literary Supplement

About the Author:

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

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