Selected Writings (Hildegard of Bingen) [Paperback]

Hildegard, the Sybil of the Rhine, was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged thematically, this new edition of her work brings together selections from her visionary trilogy, her treatise on medicine and the natural world, and her songs and correspondence.

This unique volume includes a chronology of her life and times, bibliography, select discography, explanatory notes, glossary, and connecting commentary. It shows Hildegard as a wide-ranging thinker who touched on many themes that concern us today, including: the relationship between human beings and the natural world, mutuality between men and women, and the importance of a holistic approach to life.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Selected Writings - Hildegard of Bingen - Translated by Mark Atherton Introduction:
I. Life and Career
II. Hildegard in Her Time
III. Hildegard's Writings
Further Reading
Select Discography
Chronology
Translator's Note
Know the Ways
1. Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux
2. The Action of the Will (fromScivias)
3. Redemption (fromScivias)
4. Letter to Odo of Soissons
5. The Trinity (fromScivias)
6. Letter to Pope Eugenius III
Struggles for Independence
7. Songs for Saint Disibod
8. Letter to Hartwig of Bremen
9. Song for Saint Ursula
10. The Trials of the Soul (fromScivias)
11. Songs for Saint Rupert
12. The Departure of Richardis of Strade
13. The First Version olS