Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard''s Theology of the Feminine, With a New Preface, Bibliography, and Discography
ISBN: 9780520920187
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Hildegard Saint 1098–1179; Woman (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500;

Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things.

With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history.

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Barbara Newman is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University.


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