Printer Friendly
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
3,592,290,650 visitors served.
forum Join the Word of the Day Mailing List For webmasters
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Hildegard of Bingen

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec.
Hildegard of Bingen (hĭl`dəgärth', bĭng`ən), 1098–1179, German nun, mystic, composer, writer, and cultural figure, known as the Sibyl of the Rhine. An aristocrat educated in a Benedictine convent, she began experiencing mystical visions as a child. Entering religious life c.1116, she became an abbess in 1136 and founded her own convent at Rupertsberg near Bingen c.1147. Mystical and worldly, she was deeply immersed in religious life yet also involved in political and cultural affairs, maintaining a lively and wide-ranging correspondence. Her theological magnum opus, Scivias (c.1151), contains 26 visions. Today she is best known for her richly lyrical liturgical poetry set to her own innovative monophonic chants, composed mainly in the 1140s and collected in the 1150s. She also wrote a medical encyclopedia, scientific treatises, works of natural history, lives of saints, and other works. Widely proclaimed a saint, she has not been canonized; nonetheless, her feast day is celebrated on Sept. 17.
Hildegard of Bingen
Saint. 1098--1179, German abbess, poet, composer, and mystic


How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Feedback
Mentioned in?  References in periodicals archive?   Encyclopedia browser?   Full browser?
No references found
 
From Perpetua and Hildegard of Bingen to the 19th-century African-American preacher Jarena Lee and Madeleine L'Engle, women--whose stories are largely unknown in "Big C" Christian history--play a key role in Bass' alternate history.
Of interest to medievalists in art history, French, music, and drama, the papers reflect the writers' research on specific works and monuments, with topics that include the performative use of exterior inscriptions on Armenian churches, dramatic exegesis in Hildegard of Bingen, and the performance and staging of Passion plays.
In the dark ages of 12th century Germany, a wealthy child called Hildegard of Bingen grew up in a Benedictine convent because of her ill health - probably migraines or epilepsy - which gave her plenty of time to study medicine, botany, music, philosophy, theology, languages and "cosmology," the study of the universe.
 
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Terms of Use | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc.
Disclaimer
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.