The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

Contents

• Introduction to the Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen Jennifer Bain;
• Part I . Life and Monastic Context:
• 1. The life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Michael Embach;
• 2. Living and working in a twelfth-century women's monastic community Alison Beach;
• 3. Literacy and learning in the lives of women religious of medieval Germany Lori Kruckenberg;
• Part II . Writings and Reputation:
• 4. Hildegard of Bingen's theology James Ginther;
• 5. Reading Hildegard of Bingen's letters Christopher Fletcher;
• 6. Hildegard of Bingen and the patriarchs, preaching greenness Peter Loewen;
• 7. Hildegard of Bingen: Illness and healing Faith Wallis;
• 8. The Pentachronon and Hildegard of Bingen's reputation as prophet Magda Hayton;
• 9. The context and reception of Hildegard of Bingen's visions Wendy Love Anderson;
• Part III . Music, Manuscripts, Illuminations and Scribes:
• 10. Music, liturgy and intertextuality in Hildegard of Bingen's chant repertory Jennifer Bain;
• 11. The Ordo virtutum and Benedictine monasticism Alison Altstatt;
• 12. Picturing Hildegard of Bingen's sight: Illuminating her visions Nathaniel Campbell;
• 13. Hildegard of Bingen and her scribes Margot Fassler.