Hildegard of Bingen

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Hildegard of Bingen
A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar.
Born	1098
Died	17 September 1179
Occupation	Abbess, musician, and theologian

Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; 1098 – September 17, 1179), also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German magistra and later, abbess.^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Significance 4 Further reading 5 Media 6 Notes 7 Bibliography 8 Sources 9 Literature 10 External links

[edit] Biography

Hildegard was born into a family of free nobles in the service of the counts of Sponheim, close relatives of the Hohenstaufen emperors. She was the tenth child, sickly from birth. From the time she was very young, Hildegard wrote, she experienced visions. In fact, the only surviving tale of Hildegard's childhood involves a conversation that she held with her nurse. Hildegard described an unborn calf as "white... marked with different colored spots on its forehead, feet and back." The nurse, amazed with the detail of the young child's account, told Hildegard's mother, who later rewarded her daughter with the calf, whose appearance Hildegard had accurately predicted.^[2]

Perhaps due to Hildegard's visions, or as a method of political positioning, Hildegard's parents, Hildebert and Mechthilde, offered her as a tithe to the Church at the age of eight. Hildegard was placed in the care of Jutta, the sister of Count Meinhard of Sponheim, just outside the Disibodenberg monastery in the Bavarian region now known as Germany. Jutta was enormously popular and acquired many followers, such that a small nunnery sprang up around her. Upon Jutta's death in 1136, Hildegard was unanimously elected as "magistra," or leader of her sister community. The election would lead to the significant move, executed with great opposition, of twenty members of her community to her newly-formed monastery, St. Rupertsberg at Bingen on the Rhine in 1150, where she became abbess.

Hildegard realized that keeping her visions to herself was a wise choice, and confided them only to Jutta, who in turn told Volmar, Hildegard's tutor and, later, scribe. Throughout her life, she continued to have many visions. In 1141, she received a call from God, "Write down that which you see and hear." She was hesitant to record her visions, and soon became physically ill. In her first theological text, 'Scivias, or "Know the Ways," Hildegard describes her struggle within:

I didn’t immediately follow this command. Self-doubt made me hesitate. I analyzed others’ opinions of my decision and sifted through my own bad opinions of myself. Finally, one day I discovered I was so sick I couldn’t get out of bed. Through this illness, God taught me to listen better. Then, when my good friends Richardis and Volmar urged me to write, I did. I started writing this book and received the strength to finish it, somehow, in ten years. These visions weren’t fabricated by my own imagination, nor are they anyone else’s. I saw these when I was in the heavenly places. They are God’s mysteries. These are God’s secrets. I wrote them down because a heavenly voice kept saying to me, 'See and speak! Hear and write!'^[3]

Hildegard's vivid description of the physical sensations which accompanied her visions have been diagnosed by neurologists, including popular author Oliver Sacks, as symptoms of migraine, although no evidence that her migraines could have produced such visions is present.

A vita of Hildegard was written by two monks, Godfrid and Theodoric (PL vol. 197).

[edit] Works

Attention in recent decades to women of the medieval Church has led to a repopularization of Hildegard, particularly of her music. Approximately eighty compositions have survived, which is one of the largest repertoires among medieval composers. Among her better known works, 'Ordo Virtutum',' or "Play of the Virtues", is a morality play and an example of a rare and early oratorio for women's voices, with one male part, that of the Devil, who, because of his corrupted nature, cannot sing. The play has served as an inspiration and foundation to what later became known as opera. The oratorio was created, like much of Hildegard's music, for religious ceremonial performance by the nuns of her convent. Hildegard's music is described as monophonic; that is, designed for limited instrumental accompaniment and characterised by soaring soprano vocalisations. Hildegard, in fact, remains the first composer whose biography is known.^[4]

In addition to music, Hildegard also wrote medical, botanical and geological treatises, and she even invented an alternative alphabet. The text of her writing and compositions reveals Hildegard's use of this form of modified medieval Latin, encompassing many invented, conflated and abridged words. Due to her inventions of words for her lyrics and a constructed script, many conlangers look upon her as a medieval precursor.

She collected her visions into three books. The first and most important Scivias ("Know the Way") was completed in 1151. Liber vitae meritorum ("Book of Life's Merits") and De operatione Dei ("Of God's Activities") also known as Liber divinorum operum ("Book of Divine Works") followed. In these volumes, written over the course of her life until her death in 1179, she first describes each vision, then interprets them. The narrative of her visions was richly decorated under her direction, presumably drawn by other nuns in the convent, while transcription assistance was provided by the monk Volmar with pictures of the visions(see him portrayed on the right of the illustration at the top of the article). Her interpretations are usually quite traditionally Catholic in nature. The book was celebrated in the Middle Ages and printed for the first time in Paris in 1513.

In her work Scivias, the visionary saint Hildegard of Bingen was one of the first to interpret the beast in the Book of Revelation as the Antichrist, a figure whose rise to power would parallel Christ's own life, but in a demonic form. For Hildegard, the source of the Antichrist's evil power lay in Judaism.

Hildegard's visionary writings maintain that virginity is the highest level of the spiritual life. She is the first woman to record a treatise of feminine sexuality, providing scientific accounts of the female orgasm.

"When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman's sexual organs contract, and all the parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist."

In addition, there are many instances, both in her letters and visions, which decry the misuse of carnal pleasures. In Scivias Book II Vision Six.78,

"God united man and woman, thus joining the strong to the weak, that each might sustain the other. But these perverted adulterers change their virile strength into perverse weakness, rejecting the proper male and female roles, and in their wickedness they shamefully follow Satan, who in his pride sought to split and divide Him Who is indivisible. They create in themselves by their wicked deeds a strange and perverse adultery, and so appear polluted and shameful in My sight..."

"...a woman who takes up devilish ways and plays a male role in coupling with another woman is most vile in My sight, and so is she who subjects herself to such a one in this evil deed..."

"...And men who touch their own genital organ and emit their semen seriously imperil their souls, for they excite themselves to distraction; they appear to Me as impure animals devouring their own whelps, for they wickedly produce their semen only for abusive pollution..."

"...When a person feels himself disturbed by bodily stimulation let him run to the refuge of continence, and seize the shield of chastity, and thus defend himself from uncleanness." (translation by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop).

[edit] Significance

Hildegard was a powerful woman, who communicated with Popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and others such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier 1147 and 1148.

Many abbots and abbesses asked her for prayers and opinions on various matters. She traveled widely during her four preaching tours, the only woman to have done so during the Middle Ages (see Scivias, tr. Hart, Bishop, Newman).

Hildegard was one of the first souls for which the canonization process was officially applied, but the process took so long that four attempts at canonization (the last was in 1244, under Pope Innocent IV) were not completed, and she remained at the level of her beatification. She has been referred to as a saint by some, nonetheless, particularly in contemporary Rhineland, Germany.

Hildegard's name was taken up in the Roman martyrology at the end of the sixteenth century. Her feast day is September 17. Hildegard’s Parish and Pilgrimage Church house the relics of Hildegard, including an altar encasing her earthly remains, in Eibingen near Rüdesheim (on the Rhine).

As Sister Judith Sutera, O.S.B., of Mount St. Scholastica explains:

For the first centuries, the ‘naming’ and veneration of saints was an informal process, occurring locally and operating locally. . . . When they began to codify, between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, they did not go back and apply any official process to those persons who were already widely recognized and venerated. They simply ‘grandfathered in’ anyone whose cult had been flourishing for 100 years or more. So many quite famous, ancient, and even non-existent saints who have had feast days and devotions since the apostolic era were never canonized per se.^[5]

[edit] Further reading

Selected English Translations of Hildegard

• Atherton, Mark, trans. Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings. London: Penguin, 2001.

• Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, trans. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

• —, trans. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

• —, trans. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Vol. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Bowie, Fiona and Oliver Davies, eds. Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology. London: SPCK, 1990.

• Butcher, Carmen Acevedo. Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2007.

• —. Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2005.

• Dronke, Peter, ed. and trans. Ordo virtutum, The Play of the Virtues. In Nine Medieval Latin Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 147-84.

• Feiss, Hugh, trans. Explanation of the Rule of St. Benedict by Hildegard of Bingen. Peregrina Translation Series. 1990. Toronto: Peregrina, 1996.

• —, trans. The Life of Hildegard of Bingen by Gottfried of Disibodenberg and Theodoric of Echternach. Peregrina Translation Series. Toronto: Peregrina, 1996.

• Flanagan, Sabina, trans. Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1996.

• Fox, Matthew, ed. Book of Divine Works, with Letters and Songs. Trans. Robert Cunningham, et al. Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1987.

• Führkötter, Adelgundis, and James McGrath. The Life of Holy Hildegard by the Monks Gottfried and Theodoric. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1980.

• Hart, Columba and Jane Bishop, trans. Scivias. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.

• Hozeski, Bruce W., trans. The Book of the Rewards of Life (Liber vitae meritorum). New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

• Newman, Barbara, ed. and trans. Hildegard of Bingen: Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

• Young, Abigail Ann. Translations from Rupert, Hildegard, and Guibert of Gembloux. 1999. [27 March 2006.] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young/trnintro.html

General Commentary on Hildegard

• Burnett, Charles and Peter Dronke, eds. Hildegard of Bingen: The Context of Her Thought and Art. The Warburg Colloquia. London: The University of London, 1998.

• Cherewatuk, Karen and Ulrike Wiethaus, eds. Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

• Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl. The Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.

• Dronke, Peter. Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete. 1984. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

• Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life. London: Routledge, 1998.

• King-Lenzmeier, Anne H. Hildegard of Bingen: An Integrated Vision. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001.

• Maddocks, Fiona. Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age. New York: Image Books/Doubleday, 2003.

• Newman, Barbara. Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

• —, ed. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. Berkeley: University of California, 1998.

• Pernoud, Régine. Hildegard of Bingen: Inspired Conscience of the Twelfth Century. Translated by Paul Duggan. NY: Marlowe & Co., 1998.

• Schipperges, Heinrich. The World of Hildegard of Bingen: Her Life, Times, and Visions. Trans. John Cumming. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999.

• Wilson, Katharina. Medieval Women Writers. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

On Hildegard’s Illuminations

• Fox, Matthew. Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen. Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1985.

Recordings of Hildegard’s Music (Discography)

• 900 Years: Hildegard von Bingen. Sequentia. Box Set (8 discs). RCA 77505, 1998.

• 11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula. Anonymous 4, Harmonia Mundi 907200, 1997.

• Aurora. Sinfonye, dir. Stevie Wishart. Vol. 2. Celestial Harmonies 13128, 1997.

• The Emma Kirkby Collection. Christopher Page, Hyperion 66227, 1993.

• A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen. Gothic Voices, dir. Christopher Page, Emma Kirkby (soprano). Hyperion DCA 66039, 1981.

• Gesänge der hl. Hildegard von Bingen. Schola der Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Hildegard, dir. M.-I. Ritscher. Bayer 100116, 1979.

• Hildegard of Bingen: The Harmony of Heaven. Ellen Oak, Bison Publications 1, 1996.

• Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy. Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 05472-77320-2, 1994.

• Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations. Oxford Camerata, dir. Jeremy Summerly. Naxos 8.550998, 1994.

• Hildegard von Bingen und ihre Zeit: Geistliche Musik des 12. Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg, Christophorus 74584, 1990.

• Jouissance. Viriditas, dir. Juliette Hughes. Spectrum/Cistercian Publications, ISBN 0-86786-344-7, 1993.

• The Lauds of St. Ursula. Early Music Institute, dir. Thomas Binkley. Focus 911, 1991.

• Monk and the Abbess: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Meredith Monk. Musica Sacra, dir. Richard Westenburg, Catalyst 09026-68329-2, 1996.

• O nobilissima viriditas. Catherine Schroeder, et al. Champeaux CSM 0006, 1995.

• O nobilissima viriditas. Sinfonye, dir. Stevie Wishart. Vol. 3. Celestial Harmonies 13129, 2004.

• Ordo virtutum. Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. 2 disks. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 77051-2-RG, 1982.

• Symphoniae: Geistliche Gesänge. Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 770230-2-RG, 1983.

• Symphoniae: Spiritual Songs. Sequentia. RCA 77020, 1993.

• Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations. Sinfonye, dir. Stevie Wishart. Vol. 1. Celestial Harmonies 13127-2, 1996.

• Unfurling Love’s Creation: Chants by Hildegard von Bingen. Norma Gentile. Lyrichord Early Music Series (LEMS) 8027, 1997.

• Voice of the Blood. Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. 2 disks. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 05472-77346-2, 1995.

Other Background Reading

• Barber, Richard. Bestiary: MS Bodley 764. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999.

• Butcher, Carmen Acevedo. Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2006.

• Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

• —. Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

• Constable, Giles Constable. The Reformation of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

• Dronke, Peter, ed. A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

• Holweck, the Rt. Reverend Frederick G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, with a General Introduction on Hagiology. 1924. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1990.

• Lachman, Barbara. The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen: A Novel. New York: Crown, 1993.

• —. Hildegard: The Last Year. Boston: Shambhala, 1997.

• McBrien, Richard. Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.

• McKnight, Scot. The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2006.

• O’Donohue, John. Anam Ċara. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

• Ohanneson, Joan. Scarlet Music. Hildegard of Bingen: A Novel. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1997.

• Pelikan, Jaroslav. Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

• Sacks, Oliver. Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder. 1985. Reprint. London: Vintage Books, 1999.

• Santos Paz, José Carlos, ed. La Obra de Gebenón de Eberbach. Firenze: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004.

• Sherman, Bernard D. “‘Mistaking the Tail for the Comet’: An Interview with Christopher

• "Page on Hildegard of Bingen," 1999. [16 July 2006.] For the All Music Guide at www.allclassical.com. http://homepages.kdsi.net/~sherman/pageonhild.htm.

• Silvas, Anna. Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

• Ulrich, Ingeborg. Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Healer, Companion of the Angels. Trans. Linda M. Maloney. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993.

• Ward, Benedicta. Miracles and the Medieval Mind. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1987.

Hildegard in the Original Latin

• Carlevaris, Angela, ed. Liber vite meritorum (Hildegardis Bingensis). CCCM 90. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1995.

• Derolez, Albert, ed. Guibert of Gembloux, Epistolae. CCCM 66-66a. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1988, 1989.

• — and Peter Dronke, eds. Liber divinorum operum (Hildegardis Bingensis). CCCM 92. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1996.

• Führkötter, Adelgundis and Angela Carlevaris, eds. Scivias (Hildegardis Bingensis). CCCM 43, 43A. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003.

• Kaiser, Paul, ed. Causae et curae. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.

• Klaes, Monika, ed. Gottfried of Disibodenberg and Theoderich of Echtenach, Vita sanctae Hildegardis (Hildegardis Bingensis). CCCM 126. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1993.

• Migne, Jacques Paul, ed. Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia in Patrologia Latina. Volume 197, cols. 383-738. Paris: Migne, 1855.

• Pitra, Jean-Baptiste, ed. Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis Opera. Analecta Sacra, vol. 8. Monte Cassino: Typis Sacri Montis Casinensis, 1882.

• Van Acker, Lieven, ed. Epistolarium I (I-XC) (Hildegardis Bingensis). CCCM 91. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1991.

• —, ed. Epistolarium II (XCI-CCLr.) (Hildegardis Bingensis). CCCM 91A. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1993.

[edit] Media

[edit] Notes

[edit] Bibliography

• Explanatio Regulae S. Benedicti
• Explanatio Symboli S. Athanasii
• Homeliae LVIII in Evangelia.
• Hymnodia coelestis.
• Ignota lingua, cum versione Latina
• Liber divinorum operum simplicis hominis (1163-73/74)
• Liber vitae meritorum (1158-63)
• Libri simplicis et compositae medicinae.
• Physica, sive Subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum libri novem
• Scivias seu Visiones (1141-51)
• Solutiones triginta octo quaestionum
• Tractatus de sacramento altaris.
• Vita S. Disibodi
• Vita S. Ruperti

[edit] Sources

Editions and manuscripts of Hildegard's works

• Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Hs. 2 (Riesen Codex) or Wiesbaden Codex (ca. 1180-85)
• Dendermonde, Belgium, St.-Pieters-&-Paulusabdij Cod. 9 (Villerenser codex) (ca. 1174/75)
• Muenchen, University Library, MS2∞156
• Leipzig, University Library, St. Thomas 371
• Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS 1139
• Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars prima I-XC edited by L. Van Acker, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 91A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991)
• Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars secunda XCI-CCLr edited by L. Van Acker, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 91A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1993)
• Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars tertia CCLI-CCCXC edited by L. Van Acker and M. Klaes-Hachmoller, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis XCIB (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001)
• Hildegardis Bingensis, Scivias. A. Führkötter, A. Carlevaris eds., Corpus Christianorum Scholars Version vols. 43, 43A. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003)
• Hildegardis Bingensis, Liber vitae meritorum. A. Carlevaris ed. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 90 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1995)
• Hildegardis Bingensis, Liber divinorum operum. A. Derolez and P. Dronke eds., Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 92 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Roth, "Glossae Hildigardis", in: Elias Steinmeyer and Eduard Sievers eds., Die Althochdeutschen Glossen, vol. III. Zürich: Wiedmann, 1895, 1965, pp. 390-404.
• Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, in Analecta Sacra vol. 8 edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra (Monte Cassino, 1882).
• Patrologia Latina vol. 197 (1855).

[edit] Literature

• Victoria Sweet, "Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine." New York: Routledge Press, 2006.ISBN 0-415-97634-0
• Joseph L. Baird (trans.), Radd K. Ehrman. The letters of Hildegard of Bingen. New York : Oxford University Press, 3 vols.,1994-2004. ISBN 0-19-508937-5
• Joseph L. Baird, "The Personal Correspondence of Hildegard of Bingen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-530823-9
• Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop (1990). "Scivias", The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8091-3130-7
• Audrey Ekdahl Davidson, ed. (1992). The "Ordo virtutum" of Hildegard of Bingen : critical studies. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992. ISBN 1-879288-17-6
• Victoria Sweet, "Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Medieval Medicine." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1999, 73:381-403.
• Sabina Flanagan. Hildegard of Bingen, a Visionary Life. Routledge, London, 1989. ISBN 0-7607-1361-8
• Matthew Fox. Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen. Santa Fe, N.M. : Bear & Co., 1985. ISBN 1-879181-97-5
• Bruce W. Hozeski, trans. Hildegard of Bingen : the Book of the rewards of life (Liber vitae meritorum). New York : Garland Pub., 1994. ISBN 0-19-511371-3
• Barbara Newman. Sister of wisdom : St. Hildegard's theology of the feminine. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987. ISBN 0-520-06615-4
• Barbara Newman, trans. Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1988.
• Barbara Newman. God and the Goddesses. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1911-2
• Ingeborg Ulrich. Hildegard von Bingen : Mystikerin, Heilerin, Gefahrtin der Engel. Munich: Kosel, 1990. ISBN 3-466-34254-6
• Andrew Weeks. German mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein : a literary and intellectual history. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. ISBN 0-7914-1419-1
• Maud Burnett McInerney, ed. Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays. New York: Garland Pub., 1998. ISBN 0-8153-2588-6
• Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990. ISBN 0-500-20354-7
• Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976. ISBN 0-394-73326-6
• Anna Silvas (trans). Jutta and Hildegard: the Biographical Sources (Brepols Medieval Women Series). Penn State University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-271-01954-9
• June Boyce-Tillman. The Creative Spirit: Harmonious Living with Hildegard of Bingen, Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-8192-1882-0

[edit] External links

• Hildegard of Bingen Documents, History, Sites to see today, etc.
• New Translation of Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader
• New Advent's Page on Hildegard of Bingen
• Source
• Discography (archive link, was dead; history)
• Biography and Prayers of Hildegard
• Another discography
• Church of St. Hildegard in Eibingen, Germany with information about Hildegard von Bingen and the Eibinger Hildegardisshrine

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