Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 15820
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Griffiths , Fiona.
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  • Title: Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the "Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica" [The author provides a brief overview of Herrad's encyclopedic "Hortus." She suggests that in addition to the dedicatory poem for the women of Hohenberg, Herrad probably also wrote "De primo homine" and "Rithmus de Domino" which share her same tone of joyful love for Christ. Latin texts and English translations of selected poems from the "Hortus deliciarum follow." Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: Medieval Women Writing Latin.  Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey.  Routledge, 2002.  Pages 231 - 263.
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  • Article Type: Essay;Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Abbesses Education Herrad, Abbess of Hohenbourg- Hortus Deliciarum Latin Literature Literature- Verse Monasticism Women Authors Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 12
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  • Year of Publication: 2002.
  • Language: English;Latin
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0415941849