Allegorical Form And Theory In Hildegard Of Bingen S Books Of Visions

Author : Dinah Wouters
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031171925

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Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions by Dinah Wouters Pdf

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionary’s use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the allegorical vision is not just the product of a medieval symbolic mentality, but specific to Hildegard’s position and the major transformations taking place in the prescholastic intellectual milieu, such as the changing use of Scripture or the shift from traditional hermeneutics to cognitive language philosophy. The book shows that Hildegard uses traditional forms of knowledge – prophecy, the vision, monastic theology, allegorical hermeneutics – in startlingly innovative ways by combining them and by revising them for her own time.

Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351974189

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Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum by Michael Gardiner Pdf

The Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard von Bingen’s twelfth-century music-drama, is one of the first known examples of a large-scale composition by a named composer in the Western canon. Not only does the Ordo’s expansive duration set it apart from its precursors, but also its complex imagery and non-biblical narrative have raised various questions concerning its context and genre. As a poetic meditation on the fall of a soul, the Ordo deploys an array of personified virtues and musical forces over the course of its eighty-seven chants. In this ambitious analysis of the work, Michael C. Gardiner examines how classical Neoplatonic hierarchies are established in the music-drama and considers how they are mediated and subverted through a series of concentric absorptions (absorptions related to medieval Platonism and its various theological developments) which lie at the core of the work’s musical design and text. This is achieved primarily through Gardiner’s musical network model, which implicates mode into a networked system of nodes, and draws upon parallels with the medieval interpretation of Platonic ontology and Hildegard’s correlative realization through sound, song, and voice.

Author : Hugo Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793639295

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Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato by Hugo Moreno Pdf

In Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato, Hugo Moreno argues that in Ficciones, Claros del bosque, and El mono gramático, Jorge Luis Borges, María Zambrano, and Octavio Paz practice a literary way of philosophizing—a way of seeking and communicating knowledge of reality that takes up analogical procedures. They deploy analogy as an indispensable and irreplaceable heuristic tool and literary device to convey their insight and perplexities on the nature of existence. Borges’ ironic approach involves reading and writing philosophy as fiction. Zambrano’s poetic reason is a mode of writing and thinking based on an imaginative sort of recollection that is ultimately a visionary’s poetizing technique. Paz’s poetic thinking relies on analogy to correlate and harmonize an array of worldviews, ideas, and discourses. In the appendix, Moreno shows that Plato's Republic is a forerunner of this way of philosophizing in literature. Moreno suggests that in the Republic, Plato reconciles philosophy and poetry and creates a rational prose poetry that fuses argumentation and narration, dialectical and analogical reasoning, and abstract concepts and poetic images.

Author : Heinrich Schipperges,John Cumming
Publisher : Tunbridge Wells, [England] : Burns & Oates ; Toronto : Novalis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 2890889874

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The World of Hildegard of Bingen by Heinrich Schipperges,John Cumming Pdf

Author : Jennifer Bain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471350

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The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen by Jennifer Bain Pdf

This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409029182

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Monuments And Maidens by Marina Warner Pdf

'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters western cityscapes... As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting answers' - Lorna Sage, Observer An entertaining and enlightening book about the relationship between allegory and female form from one of the great feminists and cultural historians of our time, Marina Warner.

Author : St. Hildegard of Bingen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813231297

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The Book of Divine Works by St. Hildegard of Bingen Pdf

Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of the Visionary’s Doctor’s theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation. The first part explores the intricate physical and spiritual relationships between the cosmos and the human person, with the famous image of the universal Man standing astride the cosmic spheres. The second part examines the rewards for virtue and the punishments for vice, mapped onto a geography of purgatory, hellmouth, and the road to the heavenly city. At the end of each Hildegard writes extensive commentaries on the Prologue to John’s Gospel (Part 1) and the first chapter of Genesis (Part 2)—the only premodern woman to have done so. Finally, the third part tells the history of salvation, imagined as the City of God standing next to the mountain of God’s foreknowledge, with Divine Love reigning over all.

Author : Francesca Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1614273995

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The Life and Visions of St. Hildegarde by Francesca Steele Pdf

2013 Reprint of 1914 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary and polymath. She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations. In addition to her music, Hildegard also wrote three books of visions, the first of which, her Scivias ("Know the Way"), was completed in 1151. Liber vitae meritorum ("Book of Life's Merits" or "Book of the Rewards of Life") and Liber divinorum operum ("Book of Divine Works," also known as De operatione Dei, "On God's Activity") followed. In these volumes, the last of which was completed when she was about 75, Hildegard first describes each vision, then interprets them through Biblical exegesis. Hildegard has also become a figure of reverence within the contemporary New Age movement, mostly due to her holistic and natural view of healing, as well as her status as a mystic.

Author : Jesse Keskiaho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082137

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Dreams and Visions in the Early Middle Ages by Jesse Keskiaho Pdf

A comprehensive overview of ideas about dreams and visions in the Christian cultures of the early Middle Ages.

Author : Bruce W. Holsinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804740585

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Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture by Bruce W. Holsinger Pdf

Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.

Author : Barbara Lachman
Publisher : Harmony/Bell Tower
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-28
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 0517883902

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The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen by Barbara Lachman Pdf

Hildegard of Bingen is everyone's secret passion these days. Here is a tumultuous year in the life of the great twelfth-century Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer, healer, writer, and advocate of women's full participation in the life of the spirit. Considered a saint in Germany, Hildegard left us three books of her visions in which she often saw the creation as a living, pulsing being, 77 liturgical songs, the first morality play, a book on the healing arts, a catalog of the flora of her native Rhineland, and a wealth of correspondence with monarchs, several popes, and clergy at all levels of society. In conveying the full breadth of Hildegard's inner and outer experience, Barbara Lachman has created a document that rings with truth about this singular woman and her world. Rarely does a literary work succeed as well in letting readers see the world through such illuminated eyes.

Author : Matthew Fox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
ISBN : 0045740240

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Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen by Matthew Fox Pdf

Author : Saint Hildegard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114370807

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The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen by Saint Hildegard Pdf

This is the first translation into English of the complete correspondence of this remarkable Benedictine abbess.

Author : Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783274185

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The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source by Patrick Sims-Williams Pdf

Revisionist approach to the question of the authenticity - or not - of the documents in the Book of Llandaf.

Author : Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0271047550

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Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417 by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Pdf

In Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski looks beyond the political and ecclesiastical storm and finds an outpouring of artistic, literary, and visionary responses to one of the great calamities of the late Middle Ages.