her to begin documenting her visions when she was forty-two in her book Scivias. Born the tenth child of a wealthy family in 1098, Hildegard was given to a hermitess in 1106 as a tithe, a literal gift to God.1As Hildegard learned to praise God, to read the Latin Bible, particularly the Psalms, and to chant the monastic Office,2a convent grew around her. This chapter introduces composer Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum Hildegard of Bingen grew up in an expanding convent.
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Perhaps now is the time for Hildegard’s fifteen minutes of fame? Just released, is a gorgeous, new German-language film “Vision” by Margarethe von Trotta.If you want to immerse yourself into the life and accomplishments of this “multitasking”12th-century nun, the movie is opening nationwide this week. There is a wealth of academic research available, and a growing curiosity and acceptance of her works. She was an influential and spiritual woman whose fierce devotion paved the way for future generations of women to succeed in fields from theology, to medicine, to music and art. Hildegard of Bingen, (1098-1179) was born a tenth child to a German noble family. This is not unlike the direct experience one can have with the illuminations in the recently published tome of C. Many children report supersensory experiences and one such child was Hildegard von Bingen. Tiere sowie der Mensch werden mit Kraft erfüllt und es beginnt das wunderbare unermessliche Leben. Auf der Erde wachsen Pflanzen und Bäume, Vögel und Fische. Her work allows us to interpret and mold the ideas to our own personal experience and situation. In Hildegard’s Scivias Vision II durchstrahlt der kosmische Jesus die schwarz verschleierte Schöpfung und plötzlich gehen im ganzen Universum die Lichter an. In a time when women were not allowed self-expression, Hildegard used art for very specific communicative purposes.Though she did not use traditional reasoning to arrive at her realizations, she presents us with subjective experience of the heart, through art, poetry, and music.
This is the foundation upon which all her texts rest, whether songs, visions or natural observations. Since this extraordinary phenomenon called life could only be created by God, Hildegard believed, all that lives equally carried his Divine energy, or ‘viritas’. As Stephanie Roth explains in her article The Cosmic Visions of Hildegard of Bingen:
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