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Record Number:
2459
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Ferrante , Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Correspondent: "Blessed is the Speech of Your Mouth" [Hildegard of Bingen as a letter writer].
Source:
Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. Edited by Barbara Newman. University of California Press, 1998. Pages 91 - 109.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg
Letters
Monasticism
Pastoral Care
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Germany
Century:
12
Primary Evidence:
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Abstract:
Related Resources:
Joan Ferrante reviews Hildegard's enormous output as a correspondent. Her letters range over the entire social hierarchy of her age and Ferrante stresses both their prophetic and didactic stance as God's logothetesand her expression of personal emotions a
Author's Affiliation:
Columbia University
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1998.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0520208269