Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7299
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sweet , Victoria.
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  • Title: Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Medieval Medicine [the author argues that Hildegard drew on four different traditions: Christian, literate, monastic, and domestic medicine; furthermore her emphasis on "viriditas" (the greening power of plants and the human power of conception and healing) springs from an agricultural worldview as does the theory of the four humors].
  • Source URL: Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Full Text via Project Muse) 73, 3 (Fall 1999): 381-403. Link Info target = '_blank'>Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Full Text via Project Muse) 73, 3 (Fall 1999): 381-403. Link Info
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Causae et Curae Medicine
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco (Graduate Student)
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00075140
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