When I first read about St. Hildegard of Bingen, the most recently named female Doctor of the Church, I felt almost as if I had slipped into a fairy tale. Her very name evokes poetry, and her life ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of ...
In this fascinating piece from our sister publication Bust, noted historian Dr. Eleanor Janega peels back the habit on one of the Middle Ages’ most fascinating figures: Hildegard of Bingen. A ...
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Eat Like a Medieval Nun: Hildegard von Bingen’s Cookies of Joy and Violet Wine
In the 12th century, Hildegard von Bingen founded monasteries, criticized emperors, and was endorsed by the Pope. She also ...
St. Hildegard of Bingen is depicted in an icon by Augustinian Father Richard G. Cannuli. Credit: OSV News photo/courtesy of Father Richard Cannuli The New York Times recently published an obituary for ...
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s gorgeously mesmerizing first opera has both focus and a thematically expansive view of a moment in medieval history. By Joshua Barone Reviewing from Los Angeles Hildegard of ...
Disibodenberg, a nine-hundred-year-old Benedictine monastery in the Rhineland region of western Germany, is a majestically dismal ruin, its roofless buildings overrun by ivy and interspersed with ...
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