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The Personal Correspondence of Hildegard of Bingen (Paperback)
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The Personal Correspondence of Hildegard of Bingen (Paperback)
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Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable
women of her day. From early childhood she experienced religious
visions, and at the age of eight she entered a cloistered religious
life in the Benedictine monastery of Disibondenberg. Eventually she
not only became abbess of the community, but presided over the
establishment of an important new convent near Bingen. All but
forgotten for hundreds of years, Hildegard was rediscovered in the
1980s and since then her visionary writings have been widely read
and studied. Even more surprisingly, music that she composed has
been performed and recorded to great acclaim. She has come to be
seen by some as a proto-feminist icon -- a woman of great
accomplishments who made her own way in a man's world and exerted
extraordinary influence over some of the most powerful figures of
her time. Much of Hildegard's correspondence has been preserved. It
reveals that for more than 30 years this cloistered nun was an
unflinching adviser and correspondent to all levels of church and
society, from popes and kings to ordinary lay persons, from
Jerusalem to England. With the 2004 OUP publication of Volume III
of Joseph Baird and Radd Ehrman's translation, the complete
correspondence became available for the first time in English. For
this new abridgement, Baird has selected 75 of the most interesting
and revealing of the letters from Volumes I, II, and III. Freed
from the organizational restraints of the Latin edition of the
letters, he has arranged them in roughly chronological order and
provided greatly expanded, accessibly written introductory notes
that contextualize the letters and explain their significance. As a
result, this fascinatingcollection serves as a kind of life in
letters that makes an ideal introduction ot this exceptional woman,
her world, and her work. This book is the first to give a thorough
and definitive illlumination of the personal life of Hildegard of
Bingen as viewed through the defining lens of her personal
correspondence: her early, hesitant bid for recognition of her
spiritual gifts; her courageous, and ultimately futile, fight to
retain the companionship of her close personal friend and the
poignant outcome of that struggle; her vehement defiance of the
male hierarchy in her bid to establish her own communities under
her personal governance; her impudent challenge to contemporary
conservatives views by the dress and customs she established in her
community; her paean of praise for the power of music; and her
adamant refusal, even at the advanced age of eighty, to give in to
the demands of the male authorities even in the face of
excommunication.
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