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The letters of Hildegard of Bingen
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ISBN: 1280759860 0195353102 0585245703 9780585245706 0195120108 0197739938 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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Consisting of letters addressed to some of the most notable people of the 12th century, this 2nd volume of correspondence reveals St Hildegard as a determined reformer, castigating seer, theoretical musician, patient adviser and exorcist.

The letters of Hildegard of Bingen.
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ISBN: 1280759976 0198024991 0195352971 0585245711 9780585245713 0195121171 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

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The first translation into English of the complete correspondence of the remarkable twelfth-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), this study consists of nearly four hundred letters, in four projected volumes. Addressed to some of the most notable people of the day, as well as to some of humble status, the correspondence reveals the saint in ways her more famous works leave obscure: as determined reformer, as castigating seer, as theoretical musician, as patient adviser, as exorcist. Sometimes diffident and restrained, sometimes thunderously imperious, her letters are indi

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