Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life - Softcover

Flanagan, Sabina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415185513 ISBN 13: 9780415185516

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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

Synopsis:

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) continues to be the subject of popular and scholarly interest. Sabina Flanagan provides an introduction to the life and works of the visionary, mystic, poet, musician, naturalist, healer and theologian that was Hildegard of Bingen. This edition includes: a new preface; additions to the biographical sections, revealing discoveries about Hildegard's life; updated references to recent critical material on Hildegard's writings; and a new bibliography and discography.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415185513
• ISBN 13: 9780415185516
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 244