The Five Beasts of St. Hildegard
The Five Beasts of St. Hildegard

Author: Reid Turner

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781505205312

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St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), blessed with visionary experiences since childhood, was encouraged by Pope Eugenius III to record them. After ten years she produced Scivias, Latin for "Know the Ways", which includes her famous vision of five beasts, symbolic animals that represent five historical periods of time that precede the Antichrist. Each era experiences a unique spiritual crisis intended to inflict damage on the Church in preparation for the coming of the son of perdition. The author argues convincingly that the symbolism described in the vision reflects today's world, with the first of the five eras having begun in the 1870s. With four of the eras nearly behind us, Hildegard's description of the fifth serves as a guide for what to expect in the decades ahead. thefivebeasts.wordpress.com

Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen

Author: Saint Hildegard

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9780809131303

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In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, and Islamic traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.

The Book of Divine Works
The Book of Divine Works

Author: St. Hildegard of Bingen

Publisher: Catholic University of America Press

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 0813231299

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Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of the Visionary’s Doctor’s theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation. The first part explores the intricate physical and spiritual relationships between the cosmos and the human person, with the famous image of the universal Man standing astride the cosmic spheres. The second part examines the rewards for virtue and the punishments for vice, mapped onto a geography of purgatory, hellmouth, and the road to the heavenly city. At the end of each Hildegard writes extensive commentaries on the Prologue to John’s Gospel (Part 1) and the first chapter of Genesis (Part 2)—the only premodern woman to have done so. Finally, the third part tells the history of salvation, imagined as the City of God standing next to the mountain of God’s foreknowledge, with Divine Love reigning over all.

Voice of the Living Light
Voice of the Living Light

Author: Barbara Newman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-09-30

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780520217584

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For a woman of the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen's achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Hildegard authority Barbara Newman brings together major scholars to present an accurate portrait of the Benedictine nun and her many contributions to 12th-century religious, cultural, and intellectual life. 18 illustrations.

Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions
Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions

Author: Bruce Hozeski

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1985-11-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1591438411

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Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity, producing a magnificent fusion of divine inspiration and human intellect. Hildegard von Bingen’s Mystical Visions is perhaps the most complete and powerful documentation of mystical consciousness in recorded history. Now after 800 years, these visions are again available for those seeking to reawaken mystical consciousness.

Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception
Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception

Author: Jennifer Bain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-14

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1316299678

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Since her death in 1179, Hildegard of Bingen has commanded attention in every century. In this book Jennifer Bain traces the historical reception of Hildegard, focusing particularly on the moment in the modern era when she began to be considered as a composer. Bain examines how the activities of clergy in nineteenth-century Eibingen resulted in increased veneration of Hildegard, an authentication of her relics, and a rediscovery of her music. The book goes on to situate the emergence of Hildegard's music both within the French chant restoration movement driven by Solesmes and the German chant revival supported by Cecilianism, the German movement to reform Church music more generally. Engaging with the complex political and religious environment in German speaking areas, Bain places the more recent Anglophone revival of Hildegard's music in a broader historical perspective and reveals the important intersections amongst local devotion, popular culture, and intellectual activities.

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture
Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture

Author: Bruce W. Holsinger

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780804740586

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Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.

Book Of Earths
Book Of Earths

Author: Edna Kenton

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-05-02

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1387785990

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THIS BOOK OF EARTHS began years ago, as a collection--maps of the Earth, the Moon, the heavens. For it occurred to me, not long ago, that it would be "fun" to put them all together, and many others with them, chosen to fill in the gaps of the original group. Luckily for the fun of it, the search about to begin would not be limited to what we know about the Earth, else it would have ended before it began; for we live in a universe of which we know little, and on a planet of which we know perhaps less. It would include not only what we know, or think to-day we know, but also anything that has been believed or felt or no more than "guessed" to be the picture of the Earth and its place in the universe.

Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica
Hildegard Von Bingen's Physica

Author: Saint Hildegard

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780892816613

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Saint, mystic, healer, visionary, and fighter, Hildegard von Bingen stands as one of the great figures in the history of women in medicine. She was renowned for her healing work and her original theories of medicine.