Books by Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) was the outstanding female religious figure of twelfth-century Germany. A Benedictine nun, she was consulted by bishops, popes, and kings, and wrote copiously for her fellow monastics: mystical and visionary material, liturgical music, biblical commentaries, saints'' lives, and theological explanations of various aspects of church doctrine, as well as treatises on natural science and the healing arts. Her story is important to all students of spirituality, medieval history, and culture.Fr. Hugh Feiss is a Benedictine monk, scholar, and Latin translator, and the author of ''Essential Monastic Wisdom''. Jo Ann McNamara is Professor Emerita of History at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and the author of ''Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia''.

Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions

This book is a study of the human weaknesses that separate us from God and it is one of the most subtle and fascinating works ever written on the relationship of various sins to their corresponding virtues. This is the first complete translation of this important medieval visionary work.

Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious contemporaries but also by kings and emperors, yet it is largely for her apocalyptic and mystical writings that she is remembered. This volume includes selections from her three visionary works, her treatises on medicine and the natural world, her devotional songs, and fascinating letters to prominent figures of her time. Dealing with such eternal subjects as the relationship between humans and nature, and men and women, Hildegard's works show her to be a wide-ranging thinker who created such fresh, startling images and ideas that her writings have been compared to Dante and Blake.