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  • Record Number: 7325
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Potter , Robert.
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  • Title: The “Ordo Virtutum”: Ancestor of the English Moralities? [The author argues that Hildegard's “Ordo Virtutum” was performed and connected with Church ritual, but is not a part of the later morality play tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies.  Edited by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson.  Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.  Pages 31 - 41.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Castle of Perseverance, English Morality Play Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- “Ordo Virtutum” Literature- Drama Morality Plays
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles;Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1879288176