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  • Record Number: 12729
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Glaze , Florence Eliza.
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  • Title: Medical Writer: "Behold the Human Creature"
  • Source: Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World.  Edited by Barbara Newman.  University of California Press, 1998.  Pages 125 - 148.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg Medicine Monasticism
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Related Resources: Florence Eliza Glaze sets Hildegard the medical writer in the tradition of the monastic infirmary and the new emphasis on scholastic medicine which were not divorced until the Lateran Council of 1139 shortly before Hildegard began to write. Glaze describe
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0520208269