Barbara Newman
Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things.,With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, ,Sister of Wisdom, is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history.
Nonfiction,Feminism,History,Womens,Religion,History,Medieval History,Religion,Christianity,Biography
Sister of Wisdom: St.Hildegard of Bingen's Theology of the Feminine