Her correspondence includes such notable figures as Bernard of Clairvaux, the Popes of her lifetime, including Eugene III and Anastasius IV, and the German emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. 109-110 Latin text from the edition of Adelgundis Führkötter and Angela Carlevaris, CCCM 43 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1978), pp.
Her works, written in Latin, include three visionary works (entitled Scivias. Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop (New York: Paulist Press, 1994), pp. Blessed Hildegard was a 12th century Abbess, theologian, visionary and composer. She is also known for the illuminations of her visions, painted under her direction, that adorned an early Scivias manuscript. Adapted from Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias, trans. Rupert, various musical compositions (including her musical play Ordo virtutem), a book of natural science, a book on medicine and transcripts of sermons she gave. The illuminated Scivias, perhaps the best known of Hildegards works, embodies in its unique artistic and theological approach the creativity, originality, and. Completed over ten years, 1141-1151, Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias was an opus containing over thirty-five visions with accompanying images 'set among a frenzied prophetic sense of peril for the church.' i Scivias, was shortened from three Latin words, scito bias domini, meaning 'know the ways of the Lord. Her works, written in Latin, include three visionary works (entitled Scivias, The Book of Life’s Merits and The Book of Divine Works), the Vita of St.
)īlessed Hildegard was a 12th century Abbess, theologian, visionary and composer. Alternate names/spellings: Saint Hildegard, Sybil of the Rhineĭates: 1098 - 1179 (Dates are approximate. Get your Hildegard Of Bingen: Scivias here today at the official Washington University - St.