A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

382 Pages·2014·2.418 MB·English

by  Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stoudt, George Ferzoco (eds.)

A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
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A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
Edited by
Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stoudt
& George Ferzoco
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2014
Cover illustration: Hildegard above and a scribe below, from Liber Scivias (Heidelberg,
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CONTENTS
Notes on Contributors  .................................................................................. vii
Abbreviations  .................................................................................................. xi
Acknowledgments  ......................................................................................... xv
Timeline for Hildegard of Bingen’s Life and Works  ............................ xvii
The Region of Hildegard of Bingen  .......................................................... xix
Introduction  .................................................................................................... 1
Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Debra L. Stoudt
What Do We Know About the Life of Jutta and Hildegard at
Disibodenberg and Rupertsberg?  ......................................................... 15
Franz J. Felten
St Disibod and the History of the Disibodenberg up to the
Beginning of the 12th Century  .............................................................. 39
Franz J. Felten
Hildegard of Bingen and the Hirsau Reform in Germany
1080–1180  ...................................................................................................... 57
Constant J. Mews
Unequal Twins: Visionary Attitude and Monastic Culture
in Elisabeth of Schönau and Hildegard of Bingen  .......................... 85
Felix Heinzer
Hildegard, the Schools, and their Critics  ................................................ 109
Justin A. Stover
Intertextuality in Hildegard’s Works: Ezekiel and the Claim
to Prophetic Authority  ............................................................................ 137
Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Travis A. Stevens
Hearing the Heavenly Symphony: An Overview of Hildegard’s
Musical Oeuvre with Case Studies  ...................................................... 163
Tova Leigh-Choate, William T. Flynn, and Margot E. Fassler
vi contents
Hildegard as Musical Hagiographer: Engelberg,
Stiftsbibliothek Ms. 103 and Her Songs for Saints Disibod
and Ursula  ................................................................................................... 193
Tova Leigh-Choate, William T. Flynn, and Margot E. Fassler
The Theology of Repentance: Observations on the Liber
vite meritorum  ............................................................................................ 221
Susanne Ruge
The Medical, the Magical, and the Miraculous in the Healing
Arts of Hildegard of Bingen  ................................................................... 249
Debra L. Stoudt
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179): A History of Reception  ................. 273
Michael Embach
The Canonization and Doctorization of Hildegard
of Bingen  ...................................................................................................... 305
George Ferzoco
Notes on Hildegard’s “Unknown” Language and Writing  ................. 317
George Ferzoco
Bibliography  .................................................................................................... 323
Index  .................................................................................................................. 349
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Embach studied German and Catholic theology in Trier and
Freiburg. In 1986 he earned his doctorate at the University of Trier with
a dissertation entitled “Das Lutherbild Johann Gottfried Herders (Johann
Gottfried Herder’s Image of Luther).” Four years later he completed his
Habilitation in Trier on Die Schriften Hildegards von Bingen. Studien zu
ihrer Überlieferung im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (The Works of
Hildegard of Bingen. Studies of their Transmission in the Middle Ages and in
the Early Modern Period). In 2006 he became Außerplanmäßiger Professor
in Trier. Since 2007 he has served as the director of the Trier Stadtbiblio-
thek and Stadtarchiv.
Margot E. Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and
Liturgy and Co-Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program at the
University of Notre Dame, is completing a book on Hildegard of Bingen,
and a textbook on medieval music for W. W. Norton. Her most recent
books are The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the
Arts (2010) and Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform
in Twelfth-Century Paris, 2nd ed. (2011).
Franz J. Felten served as Professor of Medieval History at the universi-
ties of Dresden, Halle, and Mainz until 2011. He is particularly interested
in the institutional, normative, social, and political aspects of medieval
religious life, especially of women religious from the 7th to the 15th centu-
ries, as well as in the history of the Avignonese Papacy. Some of his most
significant articles were republished recently in: Franz J. Felten, Vita reli-
giosa sanctimonialium. Norm und Praxis des weiblichen religiösen Lebens
vom 6. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert, aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstages von Franz J.
Felten, ed. Christine Kleinjung, Studien und Texte zur Geistes- und Sozial-
geschichte des Mittelalters, 4 (Korb: Didymos Verlag, 2011).
George Ferzoco, Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in the Univer-
sity of Bristol’s Department of Religion and Theology, works primarily on
verbal and visual propaganda in the later Middle Ages. His publications
include: Il murale di Massa Marittima / The Massa Marittima Mural (2005);
Medieval Monastic Education, co-edited with Carolyn Muessig (2000); and
viii notes on contributors
A Companion to Catherine of Siena, co-edited with Beverly Mayne Kienzle
and Carolyn Muessig (2012).
William T. Flynn, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds is
the author of Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis (1999). Recent publica-
tions dealing with Hildegard’s works include “Ductus figuratus et subtilis:
Rhetorical Interventions for Women in Two Twelfth-Century Liturgies,”
in Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle
Ages, ed. Mary Carruthers (2010); “Singing with the Angels: Hildegard of
Bingen’s Representations of Celestial Music,” in Conversations with Angels:
Essays toward a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100–1700, ed. Joad
Raymond (2011); and a translation of Gunilla Iversen’s Chanter avec les
anges, published as Laus Angelica: Poetry in the Medieval Mass (2010).
Felix Heinzer is former curator of manuscripts at the Württemberg State
Library in Stuttgart. Since 2005 he has held the position of Professor of
Medieval Latin at Freiburg University. Among his research interests are
monastic libraries and manuscripts, especially liturgical books, as well as
medieval liturgical poetry.
Beverly Mayne Kienzle, John H. Morison Professor of the Practice in Latin
and Romance Languages, Harvard Divinity School, has published several
books on medieval sermons and preaching, including: The Gospel Homi-
lies of Hildegard of Bingen, translation and introduction (2011); Hildegard
of Bingen and her Gospel Homilies (2009); Hildegard of Bingen, Expositiones
euangeliorum, co-edited with Carolyn Muessig (2007); and The Sermon.
Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, fasc. 81–83 (2000).
Tova Leigh-Choate received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2009 and
is revising for publication her dissertation, “The Liturgical Faces of Saint
Denis: Music, Power, and Identity in Medieval France.” She is currently
an independent scholar. Her work focuses on the intersections between
music, collective memory, and identity, with a particular interest in the
liturgical dimensions of the cult of the saints and the musical experiences
and contributions of Hildegard of Bingen and other women monastics.
Constant J. Mews is Professor within the School of Philosophical, His-
torical, and International Studies, Monash University, where he is also
Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology. He has pub-
lished widely on medieval thought, education, and religious culture,