After a period as research associate in Anglo-Saxon studies at the University of Manchester, he is now fellow of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford. He has taught English language, literature and translation at universities in Cologne and Brussels, and researched and published mainly on early medieval literature. He trained as a teacher at Bangor and in medieval studies at York, where he completed a doctorate on the linguist and philologist Henry Sweet. MARK ATHERTON studied modern languages at Oxford. She was celebrated as a saint in the Rhineland and in the fifteenth century her feast day was established as 17 September. She founded a second monastery at Eibingen in 1165. This was followed by three further tours in 1160, 1161-71. In about 1158 she undertook the first of her preaching tours throughout Germany, a very unusual venture for a medieval abbess. Embed this Program Add this Program to your website by copying the code below. Hildegard was by this time regarded as a mystic and prophetess, and she came to be known as the ‘Sibyl of the Rhine’. She also invented a private language, which formed the basis of two short works, The Unknown Language and The Unknown Alphabet (both completed by 1158). 1163), The Book of Divine Works (c.ġ13), lives of local saints, and various musical, scientific and medical works. She then produced a number of other works, including The Book of Life’s Merits (c. Her collection of religious songs, the Symphonia, appeared in 1158. Her first work, Scivias, appeared with Papal approval in 1151, just after she had established her own religious community at Rupertsberg, near Bingen. After Jutta’s death in 1136, Hildegard was elected abbess at Disibodenberg.Īt this time she started to write about the visions she had been experiencing. Some time between 11, when the monastery became a convent, Hildegard took religious vows. At the age of eight her family gave her into the care of a religious noblewoman, Jutta of Spanheim, who took Hildegard with her to become a recluse at the Disibodenberg monastery. Free Ebook Download Free download lesson plan, resume sample and terms paper in PDF.įull text of ' PENGUIN CLASSICS HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: SELECTED WRITINGS HILDEGARD OF BINGEN was born into a noble family in Bermersheim in 1098.
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