Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age - Hardcover

Maddocks, Fiona

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747273987 ISBN 13: 9780747273981

Verlag: Headline Book Publishing, 2001

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Críticas:

This is history as it ought to be written - with clarity, authority and wit. Hildegard is an intriguing subject and Fiona Maddocks brings her vividly to life. - Terry Jones ,... spirited, readable biography... there is no better introduction to this mother superior of the millennium' - Sunday Telegraph If Hildegard is to avoid being lost again once fashions change, much of the credit will be down to this book - Independent Maddocks's is a pragmatist's account, continually emerging out of a tangle of opinion with an argument resonating with wit and fairness... Maddocks's is a wonderful, subtle portrait, which lets the subject emerge half out of the shadows, without pouring conclusions and diagnoses on her head - Observer Meticulously researched and the subjct brought to life through close and unfussy interpretations of Hildegard's own writings - TLS

Reseña del editor:

This text provides an insight into the life of Hildegard of Bingen, a nun from the age of 18 in medieval Germany. Hildegard was a religious leader, who founded two monasteries, a poet, a celebrated visionary from whom Popes and Emperors lived in fear of receiving a letter, a writer of medical treatises, including the use of a broth made from pounded hamster liver, and a composer. Through her writings, this book presents her views on sex, love and marriage, medicine and music.

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• Verlag: Headline Book Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0747273987
• ISBN 13: 9780747273981
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256