Hildegard of Bingen : a book of essays

Abstract

Language and self-representation in the letters of Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard as a medieval "zoologist" - the animals of the "physica" Hildegard of Bingen's causes and cures - a radical feminist response to the doctor-cook binary a poetry of science - relating body and soul in the scivias where is the body? - images of Eve and Mary in Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias problem of male virginity in the "Symphonia" musical reading of Hildegard's responsory "Spiritui Sancto" rhenish confluences - Hildegard and the 14th-century dominicans Jewish mother-in-law - Hildegard's synagoga and the "Man of Law's Tale" two sisters in wisdom - Hildegard of Bingen, Christina Rossetti and feminist theology.