Hildegard of Bingen: Healing and the Nature of the Cosmos

<p>After nearly nine hundred years, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) is once again a cult figure, with popular CDs and T-shirts celebrating her popularity. Her contemporaries called her "prophetissa teutonica," honoring her philosphical writings and interpretation of the cosmos. Medievalists still consider her one of the leading mystics and the finest example what a woman could achieve in her active as well as spiritual and artistic life in the twelfth century. She was praised for her natural gifts, her prophetic charisma, and her dynamic reforming disposition. The abbess Hildegard von Bingen was the first composer to sign her musical works. As a playwright and author, she witnessed and shaped the time of the Crusades, the literary minnesang, and political and theological debates. The author "translates" Hildegard's ideas and her mysterious world of symbols from medieval Latin into contemporary concepts, and introduces her lesser-known contributions to medicine and natural healing as well as to her comprehensive philosophy of the order of the world and cosmos and the role of humankind in these spheres.</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Heinrich Schipperges

Leaders & Notable People

Markus Wiener Publishers

<p>The contemporaries of Hildegard of Bingen called her "prophetissa teutonica", honouring her philosophical writings and interpretation of the cosmos. Mediaevalists still consider her one of the leading mystics, and point to her active spiritual and artistic life in the 12th century as the finest example of what a woman can achieve. The abbess Hildegard of Bingen was the first composer to sign her musical works. As a playwright and author, she witnessed and shaped the time of the Crusades, the literary minnesang, and political and theological debate. The author of this text draws a complex picture of her life and work, as he "translates" Hildegard's ideas and her mysterious world of symbols from mediaeval Latin into contemporary concepts. Heinrich Schipperges delineates this remarkable thinker's view of the human being as a microcosm of the universe, intricately bound by the senses to the life of the soul, nature, and God.</p>

Historical

Krankheit und Gesundheit bei Maimonides: (1138–1204) (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Springer

Pathogenese: Grundzüge und Perspektiven Einer Theoretischen Pathologie

Springer London, Limited

Präventive Medizin: Aspekte und Perspektiven Einer Vorbeugenden Medizin

Hans Schaefer

Gustav Wagner

Krankheitsbegriff Krankheitsforschung Krankheitswesen: Wissenschaftliche Festsitzung der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Zum 80. Geburtstag Von Wilhelm Doerr

Volker Becker

Modelle Der Pathologischen Physiologie

Wilhelm Doerr

Springer, Verlag

Entropie und Pathogenese: Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften

El jardín de la salud: medicina en la edad media

Laia.

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