Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion by Sarah L. Higley

Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion

The New Middle Ages

Sarah L. Higley

264 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval...

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