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Medieval saint, mystic, healer, and visionary-Hildegard von Bingen
has made a comeback. She is now popular in natural healing circles,
in medieval and women's studies, and among those interested in
investing the everyday with the spiritual.
Hildegard's Healing Plants is a gift version and new translation of
the 'Plant' section of Physica, Hildegard's classic work on health
and healing. Hildegard comments on 230 plants and grains-most of
which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food
stores. In one of many entries on women's health, Hildegard writes,
'Also if a pregnant woman labors much in childbirth, let someone
cook pleasant herbs, such as fennel and assurum, in water with fear
and great moderation, squeeze out the water, and place them while
they are warm around her thighs and back, tied gently with a piece
of cloth, so that her pain and her closed womb is opened more
pleasantly and easily.'
Whether read for the sheer enjoyment of Hildegard's earthy,
intelligent voice ("Let a man who has an overabundance of lust in
his loins cook wild lettuce in water and pour it over himself in a
sauna") or for her encyclopedic and often still relevant
understanding of natural health, "Hildegard's Healing Plants" is a
treasure for gardeners, natural healing enthusiasts, and Hildegard
fans everywhere.
"Hildegard's Healing Plants" includes 230 plants and grains-most of
which are still grown in home gardens and sold at local health food
stores.
New manuscript discoveries have provided a greatly enhanced basis
for this work of Hildegard von Bingen's on natural history and
healing, which now contains twice the amount of text as the
previous standard edition from 1855. The worlds of animals and
plants, together with precious stones, metals and earths, are
treated in their entirety from a specific medieval perspective,
with a focus on the healing properties of the individual objects
from the natural world. In addition, the numerous German words
sprinkled throughout the Latin text provide new impulses for
research into the history of the German language. Key features:
First complete critical edition of the famous "Physica" Based on
the newly discovered, unabridged Florentine manuscript Of great
interest to medievalists, germanists, medieval latinists,
naturalists and medical historians New standard text edition
Supplementing the two-volume edition of Hildegard von Bingen s
Physica, this book systematically assembles and provides
lexicographic validation for the German vocabulary (1,038 German
words) in the Physica. The Index impressively documents Hildegard s
unique contribution to expanding the scope of vernacular expression
(especially in the Rhine-Franconian dialect) during the early phase
of German language development."
Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel,
tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder
als gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe
dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie
tragt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit
geraten
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