Uppity Trumpet of the Living Light
Barbara Newman: Hildegard of Bingen, 20 January 2000
Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen
edited by Sabina Flanagan.
Shambhala, 186 pp., £10.99, August 1998,1 57062 164 0 Show More
edited by Sabina Flanagan.
Shambhala, 186 pp., £10.99, August 1998,
The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Vol. II
translated by Joseph Baird.
Oxford, 215 pp., £36, October 1998,0 19 512010 8 Show More
translated by Joseph Baird.
Oxford, 215 pp., £36, October 1998,
Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources
edited by Anna Silvas.
Pennsylvania State, 299 pp., £15.50, September 1998,0 271 01954 9 Show More
edited by Anna Silvas.
Pennsylvania State, 299 pp., £15.50, September 1998,
Physica
by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop.
Healing Art, 250 pp., £19.99, August 1998,0 89281 661 9 Show More
by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Priscilla Throop.
Healing Art, 250 pp., £19.99, August 1998,
On Natural Philosophy and Medicine
by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger.
Brewer, 166 pp., £12.99, July 1999,0 85991 551 4 Show More
by Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Margret Berger.
Brewer, 166 pp., £12.99, July 1999,
“... 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? In later centuries, Hildegard would be credited with predicting everything from the English Reformation to the Napoleonic Wars ... ”
