Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4491
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  • Title: Sibyl of the Rhine: Hildegard's Life and Times
  • Source: Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World.  Edited by Barbara Newman.  University of California Press, 1998.  Pages 1 - 29.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg Monasticism Politics Visions Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Related Resources: Newman herself does double duty. She introduces the volume with an over-view of Hildegard's life and times and closes it with an essay on Hildegard as a poet. The first essay incorporates questions raised by the discovery of a life of Hildegard's original
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0520208269