Isaiah
Dr. Brauner
Music History 211

Flanangan, Sabina . Hildegard of Bingen, A Visionary Life. New York: Routlege, 1989.
This book mainly focuses on the life of Hildegard as a spiritualist and a healer, as do most books that were written about her. It begins by outlining the basic events of her life and death; her illness as a child, her education at a convent by a woman named Jutta, and the visions she saw from an early age. She regarded these visions as gifts from God but was reluctant to share them with the world until one critical dream. “And it came to pass…when I was forty-two years and seven months old that the heavens were opened up and a blinding light… flowed through my entire brain… and I suddenly understood the meanings of the expositions of the books…” (Ch. 1, 4) This is how she describes her instantaneous understanding of the books of the bible, and is compelled to begin to write all of her visions down for the remainder of her lifetime. The......

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