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Hildegard of Bingen - Selected Writings
Hildegard is one of the quartet of female mystics that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
medieval_bunny told me, back in the day, that I should read - the other three are Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp. Only Margery remains now, so I'm getting there. This is a collection of her writings put out by Penguin that tries to select representative excerpts of her work, including letters, visions, song lyrics and works on natural science.
I quite like Hildegard. I can get her. She makes far more sense to me than Julian of Norwich. Her crazy female medieval mystic thing is her vision of the world as a cosmic egg - but it makes sense! There's also an excerpted passage from her work Scivias titled 'The Trials of the Soul' which was simply wonderful; some very good phrases and ideas that happened to speak quite deeply to where I am spiritually at the moment.
It's slightly odd reading the lyrics to the religious music she wrote without the music to go with it. I have some Hildegard in the music library, but didn't sit down and try to listen to it along with the words. They're good words, though. She does a very interesting job of connecting ideas of the feminine into Christianity, which is never unwelcome in my neck of the woods.
So, if you happen to be into medieval mysticism, it's probably worth picking a copy of this up for a peruse; you never know what might get you.
Hildegard is one of the quartet of female mystics that
medieval_bunny told me, back in the day, that I should read - the other three are Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp. Only Margery remains now, so I'm getting there. This is a collection of her writings put out by Penguin that tries to select representative excerpts of her work, including letters, visions, song lyrics and works on natural science.I quite like Hildegard. I can get her. She makes far more sense to me than Julian of Norwich. Her crazy female medieval mystic thing is her vision of the world as a cosmic egg - but it makes sense! There's also an excerpted passage from her work Scivias titled 'The Trials of the Soul' which was simply wonderful; some very good phrases and ideas that happened to speak quite deeply to where I am spiritually at the moment.
It's slightly odd reading the lyrics to the religious music she wrote without the music to go with it. I have some Hildegard in the music library, but didn't sit down and try to listen to it along with the words. They're good words, though. She does a very interesting job of connecting ideas of the feminine into Christianity, which is never unwelcome in my neck of the woods.
So, if you happen to be into medieval mysticism, it's probably worth picking a copy of this up for a peruse; you never know what might get you.
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