Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2457
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Ferrante , Joan.
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  • Title: Scribe quae vides et audis: Hildegard, Her Language, and Her Secretaries [The author suggests that Guibert, Hildegard's last secretary, had her permission to embellish her texts with ornate rhetoric while all her earlier scribes had confined themselves to making corrections].
  • Source: The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin.  Edited by David Townsend and Andrew Taylor.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.  Pages 102 - 135.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Guibert of Gembloux, Monk and Secretary to Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg Latin Language Latin Literature Scribes and Scriptoria Visions Women in Religion Writing
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Related Resources: Joan Ferrante's informative, thorough study, Scribe quae vides et audis: Hildegard, Her Language and Her Secretaries" is again much closer to the traditional end of the methodological spectrum of this collection. For Hildegard of Bingen, Ferrante argues,
  • Author's Affiliation: Columbia University
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0812234405