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Barbara Newman

Barbara Newman is John Evans Professor of Latin at Northwestern University. Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece is forthcoming.

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subscriber-only content ‘I was such a lovely girl’ · 25 May 2006

  • Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours
  • Medieval Lyric: Middle English Lyrics, Ballads and Carols edited by John Hirsh  Buy this book
  • An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman’s Song edited by Anne Klinck

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 not available in archive Uppity Trumpet of the Living Light · 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