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Hildegard von Bingen - Selected
Books
A great first
book on Hildegard! Full color reproductions of her
artwork, stories of her life and excerpts from her
writings upon which the illuminations are based.
Easy to read, it makes a nicegift as well as
flip-through picture book. Once you have read this,
you are ready togo onto her medical writings,
theological books or poems, with a basic background
of understanding. Published
December 1985 Published April
1995 Hildegard
Von Bingen's Physica : Hildegard wrote
two books on healing - Causae et Curae, and
Physica, the latter translated here from her
original Latin into English for the first time.
Hildegard follows the pattern of medical thought of
her time, that illiness is a result of imbalance in
the living system of mind-body-spirit. Reaching a
better balance can ocurr through changing our
relationship to many things, including Plants,
Elements, Trees, Stones, Fish, Birds, Animals,
Reptiles and Metals. Hildegard's writings tend to
be difficult to translate, and contain many
references to her own Catholic world of spirit.
This is a great book for those who are ready to
'feel' Hildegard's words reach out to them, but is
a difficult place to start if you have no
background in her life or medieval
texts. Published
October 1998 Hildegard of
Bingen, 1098-1179 : Published June
1998 Scarlet
Music I admit, I
haven't read it yet! But I have heard from many
people how much they enjoyed it, and that because
of reading this book they felt drawn to discover
Hildegard's music and writings.This is a
fictionalized account of events. Published
August 1995 Hildegard,
the Last Year Published October
1997 The Book of
the Rewards of Life Translated
Bruce W. Hozeski Hildegard of
Bingen's Book of Divine Works : Some of
HIldegard's own descriptions and interpretations of
her visions, a selection of her letters, including
those on the sacred nature of music, and ten of her
songs in square note notation with English
translation. A nice sampling for those wanting to
connect Hildegard's life and music. ISBN:
0939680351 Hildegard of
Bingen and Her Vision of the Feminine Published March
1997 ISBN:
1564553388 Symphonia :
A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie
Celestium Revelationum Here you will
find all of Hildegard's chants translated into
English. As with any translations, the viewpoint
and opinions of the translator come through very
strongly. I find a strong leaning to feminism here,
which is also a nice balance to other translations
(including my own). This may be the only complete
English version in print. Published March
1998) Paperback: 304
pages; 1st edition (December 2000) Published March
1988
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
by Matthew Fox (Editor)
Hildegard of Bingen: Woman of
Vision
by Carol Reed-Jones
A great book to
share with your children. While written for middle
school and upper elementary grade students, this is
a lovely overview of Hildegard's life and time,. A
relaxing read that sets Hildegard's life into
historical context, the author has re-created
Hildegard's world in a way that those of many ages
can enter into it.
2004
Hildegard of Bingen's Spiritual Remedies
by Dr. Wighard Strehlow
A book of 250 pages, includes natural medthods,
such as meditation and fasting, used by Hildegard
to treat 'weaknesses of the soul'. This is a
companion volume to Dr. Strehlow's Hildegard of
Bingen's Medicine.
Published June 2002
The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen
by Barbara Lachman
What a lovely book this is! The layout is
wonderful, mimicing a medieval book in its notes
along the borders and typsetting. I found moments
of wonder when the story fell into Hildegard's life
with all the pain and passion of true humanity . A
fictional must.
The Complete English Translation of Her Classic
Work on Health and Healing
Priscilla Throop (Translator)
A Visionary Life
by Sabina Flanagan
Basic historical background not just on Hildegard's
own life but also on the role and challenges faced
by women of her time period in northern European
cultures. I found it interesting and distrubing to
note that the cultural practices around education
still have underlying currents in today's
world.
A Novel
by Joan Ohanneson
by Barbara Lachman
In 1178, in the 80th year of her life, Hildegard of
Bingen and her community of nuns were forced to
refrain from their daily cycle of chanted services.
Imagining Hildegard's thoughts during that period
of enforced silence, author Barbara Lachman creates
a "journal" such as Hildegard might have kept--a
moving meditation on the power and meaning of the
word, music, and silence, and a compelling work of
historical re-creation.
(Liber Vitae Meritorum)
by Hildegard of Bingen :
With Letters and Songs
Matthew Fox (Editor)
by Nancy Fierro
by Hildegard of Bingen
Translation and introduction by Barbara
Newman
The Creative
Spirit:
Harmonious Living with Hildegard of Bingen
by June Boyce-Tillman, June Tillman
Paperback: 224 pages; (July 1, 2001)
Constructing
Musical Healing:
The Wounds that Heal
by June Boyce-Tillman
Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine
by Dr.Wighard Strehlow, Gottfried Hertzka
(Contributor)
If you are interested in knowing more of how
Hildegard thought about healing and balance in the
mind-body-spirit connection, this is a good starter
book. It includes highlights from her original
writtings in Latin, translated into English, and
lets readers take some of her ideas into modern day
life.