[PDF.42cd] Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion (The New Middle Ages)

Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion (The New Middle Ages)

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 | #2913800 in Books |  Palgrave Macmillan |  2007-12-15 |  2007-12-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.63 x5.50l,.88 | File type: PDF | 246 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Medieval Christianity and Women Mystics|By Jenny|This book provides a wonderful in-depth analysis of St. Hildegard of Bingen's languages. I am impressed by Higley's writing style and moreover her historical breath that fully illustrates the reasonings behind Bingen's creation of languages. Moreover, not being a linguist, Higley made clear the importance of Bingen's contributi| ||"For the first time, Hildegard's Lingua ignota is put in a strictly historical context, which runs up to the present time. The content of the 1012 words of the Lingua ignota is based on the 'Summarium Heinrici', a medieval encyclopedia, which stands in the tr

The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an...

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