![]() Against this background the author explores Hildegard's vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music. Scivias contains a.Īuthor by: Sabina Flanagan Language: en Publisher by: Routledge Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 49 Total Download: 565 File Size: 40,9 Mb Description: Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard's life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress's cell-where a woman would remain in pious isolation-to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. ![]() 3 The first of the three volumes recording her visions is Scivias (Know the Way), written between 1141, after the Holy Spirit had descended on Hildegard and enlightened her, and 1151. ![]() Her remaining years were very productive. ![]() She later founded another convent, Eibingen, across the river from Bingen.
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