Description
Meet the incomparable St. Hildegard: nourishing, challenging, and idea-bursting. This essential reader includes selections from her songs, theological texts, liturgical music, and letters and will stir and awaken your soul. Combined with an introduction to Hildegard's life and era, a map of Hildegard's Germany, chronology, and a thorough bibliography/discography, Hildegard of Bingen provides the ideal introduction to the thought of this fascinating medieval mystic and the newest Doctor of the Church.
Author: Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: 01/02/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.41w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9781612613703
ISBN10: 1612613705
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Religion | Mysticism
About the Author
Carmen Acevedo Butcher has spent the last twenty years studying and teaching medieval Christianity. She earned her Ph.D. in medieval studies from the University of Georgia, and teaches at Shorter University. She is also the author of Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict and editor of Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics. Visit her on the Web at www.carmenbutcher.com.