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| Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Hildegard Of Bingen
Creator: Oliver Davies
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 159943
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0140436049
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
EAN: 9780140436044
ASIN: 0140436049
Publication Date: March 31, 2005
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Condition: Publisher: Penguin, 2002,Date of Publication: 2002Binding: Soft coverDescription: paperback, 254pp, clean and sound, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0140436049
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 A truly epoch-defining experience August 16, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It isn't very often that one comes across a book such as this, but I felt that I had to write in and comment on the brilliance with which the book has been edited by Mark 'Mak' Atherton. Never afraid to fly in the face of 'popular' (is that not a misnomer?!) Hildegarde scholarship, Atherton's thrillingly original and daringly subversive 'take' on Hildegarde reveals that, beneath the apparently saintly facade, a riot of passion and lust lay heavy upon her heart. I wait with baited breath for Atherton's next page-turner.
 Selected Writings of Hildegard von Bingen May 1, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hildegard was very much a 'one off': she was a twelfth century woman with a voice. Whether she was either a saintly mystic or merely someone who interpreted migraine induced hallucinations, her voice remains a fascinatingly original one and this selection is an ideal introduction to her writings.
The introduction is informative without being either too detailed or too patronising. There is a well-balanced mix of her letters as well as extracts from her longer works such as 'Scivias'.
She was a polymath who wrote, composed and illustrated in response to her visions and whist it is disappointing that there are only a few colour plates of her extraordinary pictures, I would thoroughly recommend this book to all who wish to explore the writings of one of the most astonishing medieval figures first hand.
A Medieval New Ager August 5, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a composer, poet and writer on theological, scientific and medical subjects, Hildegard von Bingen has bequeathed us a rich legacy. She is one of the few female medieval composers whose work is generally known and performed today. My favorite interpretation of her music can be found in four tracks on Meredith monka"s album aSMonk and the Abbess.ay Athertona"s book provides selected texts from her visionary Scivias trilogy, her medical writings, songs and letters. Interestingly enough, Hildegard is known today in Europe by followers of holistic and herbal medicine on the one hand, and by lovers of classical and medieval music on the other. She is also admired for her life story and for having been a popular and influential author during a misogynist era. Although she was orthodox in belief and criticized the Gnostic Cathars to my dismay, I still admire her spirituality and the feminine expression of it (she saw man & woman as equals) and her understanding of humanitya"s unity with nature and the universe. Atherton provides explanatory introductions to her writings, and the book has a chronology of her colorful life, a discography of her music, notes, a glossary and commentary.
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