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<p><P>Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell&#151;where a woman would remain in pious isolation&#151;to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music.</p> <h3>New York Review of Books</h3> <p>It is the great virtue of Sabina Flanagan's cool, scholarly, and reflective biography that it sets her story so firmly in her own age. . . . A woman of electrifying visionary power, fascinating, often enigmatic and clearly of great presence, she was also a woman with a will and prejudices of her own. . . . It is as such, wrinkles and all, that Sabina Flanagan presents her to us, and we must be grateful for the historical balance of her picture.</p>

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Author

Sabina Flanagan

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203007297

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir