Barbara Newman

Barbara Newman is John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Among her books is Thomas of Cantimpré: The Collected Saints’ Lives.

In the LRB Archive:

• My Feet Are Cut Off: Lives of the Saints · 3 December 2009

  • Gilte Legende Vol. I edited by Richard Hamer and Vida Russell
  • Gilte Legende Vol. II edited by Richard Hamer and Vida Russell

• ‘I was such a lovely girl’: The Songs of the Medieval Troubadours · 25 May 2006

  • Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours translated by Ezra Pound, W.D. Snodgrass and Robert Kehew, edited by Robert Kehew
  • Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols edited by John Hirsh
  • An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song edited by Anne Klinck

• Uppity Trumpet of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen · 20 January 2000

  • Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen edited by Sabina Flanagan
  • The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Vol. II translated by Joseph Baird
  • Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources edited by Anna Silvas
  • Physica by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop
  • On Natural Philosophy and Medicine by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger

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