Uppity Trumpet of the Living Light

Barbara Newman

  • Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen edited by Sabina Flanagan
    Shambhala, 186 pp, £10.99, August 1998, ISBN 1 57062 164 0
  • The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Vol. II translated by Joseph Baird
    Oxford, 215 pp, £36.00, October 1998, ISBN 0 19 512010 8
  • Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources edited by Anna Silvas
    Pennsylvania State, 299 pp, £15.50, September 1998, ISBN 0 271 01954 9
  • Physica by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop
    Healing Art, 250 pp, £19.99, August 1998, ISBN 0 89281 661 9
  • On Natural Philosophy and Medicine by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger
    Brewer, 166 pp, £12.99, July 1999, ISBN 0 85991 551 4

Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century prophet extraordinaire, would not have been alarmed by the outbreak of Y2K fever, but she would have known how to seize the moment. Eight hundred years ago, readers treasured yet trembled at her predictions of the apocalypse to come, asking: When will the ominous ‘Age of the Fiery Dog’ begin? Which monasteries were to be seized by secular lords, humbled and disendowed? Had the Antichrist already been conceived in his mother’s womb? Was there still time to avert the threatened wrath of God?

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[*] Hildegard of Bingen. Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum, recorded by Sequentia, directed by Barbara Thornton. Five compact discs on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: Canticles of Ecstasy (1994), Voice of the Blood (1995), O Jerusalem (1997) and Saints (2 discs, 1998).