Selected Writings: Hildegard of Bingen

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION IX I LIFE AND CAREER IX II HILDEGARD IN HER TIME XVI III HILDEGARD'S WRITINGS XXV FURTHER READING XLI SELECT DISCOGRAPHY XLIX CHRONOLOGY LI TRANSLATOR'S NOTE LVII KNOW THE WAYS 1. Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux 3 2. The Action of the Will (from Scivias) 6 3. Redemption (from Scivias) 9 4. Letter to Odo of Soissons 21 5. The Trinity (from Scivias) 23 6. Letter to Pope Eugenius III 31 STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE 7. Songs for Saint Disibod 35 8. Letter to Hartwig of Bremen 37 9. Song for Saint Ursula 39 10. The Trials of the Soul (from Scivias) 41 11. Songs for Saint Rupert 47 12. The Departure of Richardis of Stade 51 13. The First Version of The Play of the Virtues (from Scivias) 53 THE SIBYL OF THE RHINE 14. Three Political Letters 65 15. Songs for the Dedication of a Church 69 16. Teachings on the Church (from Scivias) 71 17. Letter to Elisabeth of Schönau 79 18. Gertrud of Stahleck 82 19. Letter to the Abbess of Bamberg 84 IN PRAISE OF CREATION 20. The Cosmic Egg (from Scivias) 89 21. The Cosmos (from Causes and Cures) 93 22. Gemstones (from Physica) 126 23. Songs from Symphonia 115 24. Two Christmas Homilies 123 ALLEGORIES OF JUSTICE AND LOVE 25. The Iron Mountain (from Scivias) 131 26. The Man Looking East and South (from The Book of Life's Merits) 136 27. The Seven Vices and Virtues (from The Book of Life's Merits) 139 28. The Voice from Heaven (from The Book of Life's Merits) 146 29. The Unknown Language 161 30. Allegorical Letters 163 31. A Vision of Love (from The Book of Divine Works) 171 HILDEGARD'S LIFE AND INFLUENCE 32. Queries and Requests: Selected Letters to Hildegard 179 33. From The Life of Hildegard, Book 2, by Theoderich of Echternach 188 34. Gebeno of Eberbach: The Pentachronon 193 35. From the Canonization Protocol 196 NOTES 205 GLOSSARY 237