Life and Monastic Context

Part I - Life and Monastic Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2021

Edited by

Jennifer Bain

Show author details

Jennifer Bain: Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia

Book contents

Get access

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Type: Chapter
Information: The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen , pp. 9 - 82

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108573832 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Primary Sources

“Acta Inquisitionis de virtutibus et miraculis sanctae Hildegardis.” In Silvas, Anna, ed. and trans., Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, 258–272.Google Scholar

Benedict XVI, Pope. “Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.” May 10, 2012. VIS. Vatican Information Service. Holy See Press Office. http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2012/05/decrees-of-congregation-for-causes-of_11.html.Google Scholar

Benedict XVI, Pope. “Apostolic Letter Proclaiming Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Professed Nun of the Order of Saint Benedict, a Doctor of the Universal Church.” October 7, 2012. www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_letters/documents/hf_ben-xvi_apl_20121007_ildegarda-bingen.html.Google Scholar

Hildegard of Bingen. Explanation of the Rule of Benedict, trans. Feiss, Hugh. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005.Google Scholar

Feiss, Hugh The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen, ed. Baird, Joseph L. and Ehrman, Radd K.. 3 vols. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994–2004.Google Scholar

Feiss, Hugh Two Hagiographies: Vita sancti Rupperti confessoris. Vita sancti Dysibodi episcopi, ed. and English trans. Feiss, Hugh; Latin ed. Evans, Christopher P.. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 11. Paris: Peeters, 2010.Google Scholar

Silvas, Anna, ed. and trans., Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.Google Scholar

Vita sanctae Hildegardis, ed. Klaes, Monika. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 126. Turnhout: Brepols, 1993.Google Scholar

Secondary Sources

Embach, Michael. “Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179): A History of Reception.” In Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, Stoudt, Debra L., and Ferzoco, George, eds., A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Leiden: Brill, 2014, 273–304.Google Scholar

Embach, Michael and Wallner, Martina. Conspectus der Handschriften Hildegards von Bingen. Münster: Aschendorff, 2013.Google Scholar

Felten, Franz J. “What Do We Know About the Life of Jutta and Hildegard at Disibodenberg and Rupertsberg?” In Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, Stoudt, Debra L., and Ferzoco, George, eds., A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Leiden: Brill, 2014, 15–38.Google Scholar

Kotzur, Hans-Jürgen, ed., Hildegard von Bingen, 1098–1179. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1998.Google Scholar

Schmandt, Matthias. “Hildegard von Bingen und das Kloster Eibingen: Revision einer historischen Überlieferung.” Nassauische Annalen 125 (2014): 29–52.Google Scholar

Hildegard of Bingen. De Regula sancti Benedicti. In Hildegardis Bingensis: Opera minora, ed. Feiss, Hugh. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 226. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, 23–97.Google Scholar

Hildegard of Bingen Explanation of the Rule of Benedict, trans. Feiss, Hugh. Toronto: Peregrina Publishing, 1990; rpt. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005. https://monasticmatrix.osu.edu/cartularium/explanation-rule-benedict Google Scholar

Beach, Alison I., ed. Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.Google Scholar

Beach, Alison I. Women As Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Google Scholar

Beach, Alison I. and Cochelin, Isabelle, eds. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.Google Scholar

Bruce, Scott G. Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c.900-1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Google Scholar

Cochelin, Isabelle. “Customaries As Inspirational Sources.” In Marino Malone, Carolyn and Maines, Clark, eds., Consuetudines et Regulae: Sources for Monastic Life in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Disciplina Monastica. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014, 27–72.Google Scholar

Gilchrist, Roberta. Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.Google Scholar

Harper, John. The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century: A Historical Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.Google Scholar

Martin, Therese, ed. Reassessing the Roles of Women As “Makers” of Medieval Art and Architecture. 2 vols. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012.Google Scholar

Polet, Caroline and Anne Katzenberg, M.. “Reconstruction of the Diet in a Mediaeval Monastic Community from the Coast of Belgium.” Journal of Archaeological Science 30 (2003): 525–533.Google Scholar

Robertson, Duncan. Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading. Cistercian Studies Series, no. 238. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2011.Google Scholar

Schmandt, Matthias. “Hildegard von Bingen und das Kloster Eibingen: Revision einer historischen Überlieferung.” Nassauische Annalen 125 (2014): 29–52.Google Scholar

Lyon, Jonathan Reed, ed. and trans. Noble Society: Five Lives from Twelfth-Century Germany. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.Google Scholar

McCarthy, Maria Caritas, trans. The Rule for Nuns of St. Caesarius of Arles: A Translation with a Critical Introduction in Studies in Mediaeval History. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1960.Google Scholar

Silvas, Anna, ed. and trans. Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.Google Scholar

Vita sanctae Hildegardis, ed. Klaes, Monika. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 126. Turnhout: Brepols, 1993.Google Scholar

Beach, Alison I., ed. Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.Google Scholar

Beach, Alison I. Women As Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Google Scholar

Blanton, Virginia and Scheck, Helene. “Leoba and the Iconography of Learning in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Women Religious.” In Blanton, Virginia, O’Mara, Veronica, and Stoop, Patricia, eds., Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015, 3–26.Google Scholar

Ferrante, Joan. “‘Scribe quae vidis et audis’: Hildegard, Her Language, and Her Secretaries.” In Townsend, David and Taylor, Andrew, eds. The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, 102–135.Google Scholar

Garber, Rebecca L. R. Feminine Figurae: Representations of Gender in Religious Texts by Medieval German Women Writers, 1100–1375. New York: Routledge, 2003.Google Scholar

Griffiths, Fiona. The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.Google Scholar

Mews, Constant J., ed. Listen, Daughter: The “Speculum Virginum” and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2001.Google Scholar

Stover, Justin A. “Hildegard, the Schools, and Their Critics.” In Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, Stoudt, Debra L., and Ferzoco, George, eds., A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen, Leiden: Brill, 2014, 109–137.Google Scholar

Vanderputten, Steven. Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.Google Scholar