Neither ProQuest nor its licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations. This functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. You have requested "on-the-fly" machine translation of selected content from our databases. Her works are full of symbolism and rhetoric designed to draw her audience to an appreciation of, understanding of, and awakened devotion to God. Her works include ethical, scientific, and doctrinal statements that are encompassed in visionary texts with illuminations and poetic language, letters to contemporary clerical authorities and peers that exude encouragement and love or zealous admonitions, as well as, musical compositions, poetry, and plays. Hildegard wrote and directed the illumination of a number of prophetic pieces that expound upon the will of God, the nature and love of God, the history of salvation, and the response and responsibilities of humans to God and God's love.
As a result, she developed an unusual degree of self-awareness about her gender and its social and spiritual implications."1 In dealing with the oppositions she encountered from the cultural religious world in which she lived, and from her internal struggle to understand the meaning of the visions, she was able to articulate an expression that included words and illuminations with complex themes and qualities that can be interpreted and understood to reveal aspects of her own personality and makeup. In this frontispiece, an analysis of the illumination, the words, and their intertextual relationship will yield some important insights into her psyche and her attitudes about her prophetic call.īarbara Newman explains that as Hildegard "pursued her highly unfeminine career as writer, reformer, and preacher, she naturally encountered opposition, both from her enemies and from within her own psyche. The relationship, fraught with tension and ambivalence, as well as love and devotion, is displayed in Hildegard's frontispiece to Scivias. In this study, of particular note is her complex relationship with Volmar, her scribe. Within the larger discourse, Hildegard reveals attitudes about her own self-perception as it relates to her position as a woman in a medieval religious culture. The intricately crafted illuminations and the poetic discourse simultaneously express the character of God, the manner of salvation, and the characteristics of humanity.
The visions are a collection of revelations from God that Hildegard interprets and illustrates.
Hildegard of Bingen, a medieval abbess (1098-1179 AD), defines her perceptions of self, of relationships, and of her mission in the introduction to her first major book of visions, Scivias (Know the Ways).
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