Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY & LINKS
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GENERAL BIOGRAPHY

Critical Editions
Vita Sanctae Hildegardis. M. Klaes, Coprus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, CCCM 126 (Turnhout Brepols, 1993)


Hildegardis Bingensis, Opera minora. H. Feiss, C. Evans, B. M. Kienzle, C. Muessig, B. Newman, P. Dronke eds., Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 226  (Turnhout Brepols, 2007)


Hildegardis Bingensis, Opera minora II. C. P. Evans, J. Deploige, S. Moens, M. Embach, K. Gärtner eds., Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 226a  (Turnhout Brepols, 2014)

Dronke, Peter. "Hildegard von Bingen." In Women Writers of the Middles Ages: A Critical Study of Texts fro Perpetua to Marguerite Porete. Cambridge University Press. 1984.

Flanigan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life.  London: Routledge, 1989; reprint, New York: Routledge, 1993. (https://www.routledge.com/.../Flanagan/p/book/9780415185516

Silvas, Anna. Jutta and Hildegard: The Biograhpical Sources. Penn State University Press / Brepols. 1999.

Meconi, Honey.  𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯 (https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p083679 2018.

There are also two multi-author volumes that give good overviews:

Jennifer Bain, ed., 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯 (2021: https://www.cambridge.org/.../60C953CC0C2B6E6CC80DB465F9D... )

Barbara Newman, ed., 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: 𝘏𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 (1998: https://www.ucpress.edu/.../978.../voice-of-the-living-light )

COLLECTIONS, PROCEEDINGS

A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen. Debra Stoudt, George Ferzoco, Beverly Kienzle ed. Brill: 2013.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. “Prophet and Reformer.” In Voice of the LivingLight: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, ed. Barbara Newman, 70-90. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Maddocks, Fiona. Hildegard ofBingen: A Woman of Her Age. London : Headline Book Publishing, 2001; reprint, Image Books, 2003.

Probst, Ernst. Hildegard von Bingen - Die Deutsche Prophetin (German Edition). GRIN Verlag, 2012

Witts, Richard. “How to Make aSaint: On Interpreting Hildegard of Bingen,” Early Music 27.3 (1998) : 478-486.

HEALTH and HEALING
Hildegard von Bingen. Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing. trans. Priscilla Throop. Healing Arts Press. 1998.

Fournier-Rosset, Jany. From Saint Hildegard's Kitchen: Foods of: Health, Foods of Joy. Liguori. 2010

Strehlow, Wighard and Hertzka, Gottfried. Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine (Folk Wisdom Series). Bear & Co. 1987.

HOMILIES & SERMONS
Hildegard of Bingen Homilies on the Gospels. ed. Beverley Mayne Kienzle. Cistercian Studies. 2011

LETTERS
Critical Editions
Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars prima I-XC edited by L. Van Acker, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 91A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991) 

Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars secunda XCI-CCLr edited by L. Van Acker, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 91A (Turnhout: Brepols, 1993) 

Hildegardis Bingensis, Epistolarium pars tertia CCLI-CCCXC edited by L. Van Acker and M. Klaes-Hachmoller, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis XCIB (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001) 

Hildegard of Bingen. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hildegard of Bingen. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Hildegard of Bingen. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume III. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

--Regarding Letters
Van Engen, John. "Letters and the Public Persona of Hildegard of Bingen." In Hildegard von Bingen in Ihrem historischen Umfeld, ed. Alfred Haverkamp, 375-418. Mainz, 2000.

LINGUA IGNOTA
Highley, Sarah L. Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language. An Edition Translation and Discussion. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.

MUSIC
Jennifer Bain. Hildegard, Hermannus, and Late Chant Style. Journal of Music Theory 52/1 (2008), 123-149 [issued 2009]


Jennifer Bain. Hooked on Ecstasy: Performance 'Practice' and Reception of the Music of Hildegard von Bingen. The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Medieval and Renaissance Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee (Ashgate, 2009), 253-273..


Jennifer Bain. Selected Antiphons of Hildegard von Bingen: Notational and Structural Design. M.A. Thesis. McGill University: Montreal. 1995.

Fassler, Margot. “Composer and Dramatist: Melodious Singing and the Freshness of Remorse.” In Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, ed. Barbara Newman, 149-175. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Fassler, Margot. “Music for the Love Feast: Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of Songs.” In Women’s Voices across Musical Worlds, ed. Jane A Bernstein, 92-117. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003.


Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Symphonia: a Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum [symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations]. ed. and trans. Barbara Newman. 2nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Hildegard of Bingen. Symphonia vol. 3 : The Holy Spirit. Edited by Marianne Richert Pfau with translations by Barbara Newman. Bryn Mawr: Hildegard Publishing Company, 1997. 

Jeffreys, Catherine M. “Melodia et rhetorica: the devotional song repertory of Hildegard of Bingen.” Ph.D. diss., University of Melbourne, 2000.

Jenni, D. Martin. “Echoes in Hildegard’s Songs of the Song of Songs,” Mystics Quarterly 17 (1991) : 71-78.

Lomer, Beverly R. Music, rhetoric and the creation of feminist consciousness in the Marian songs of Hildegard of Bingen (1098--1179. PhD Dissertation. Florida Atlantic University 2006.


Sandstrom-McGuire, Xenia. Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen. presentation at International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2008.


Sandstrom-McGuire, Xenia. Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen. M.A. Thesis. University of Minnesota 2007.

Pfau, Marianne Richert. “Hildegard von Bingen’s Symphonia: An Analysis of Musical Process, Modality, and Text-Music Relations.” Ph.D Diss., Stony Brook University, 1990.

Stevens, John. “The Musical Individuality of Hildegard’s Songs: A Liturgical Shadowland.” In Hildegard of Bingen: The Context of Her Life and Thought, ed. Charles Burnett and Peter Dronke, 163-188. London: Warburg Institute 1998.

MYSTICISM in the MIDDLE AGES

McGinn, Bernard. “The Changing Shape of Late Medieval Mysticism,” Church History, Vol. 65, No.2 (Jun 1996), 197-219.

McGinn, Bernard. “Love, Knowledge, and Mystical Union in Western Christianity: Twelfth through Sixteenth Centuries,” Church History, Vol. 56, No.1 (March 1987) : 7-24.

VISIONARY WORKS, THEOLOGY, and SPIRITUALITY

Butcher, Carmen Acevendo. Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader. Paraclete Press. 2007.

Jeannette D. Jones. A Theological Interpretation of Viriditas in Hildegard of Bingen and Gregory the Great  Portfolio of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology. Boston University. Accessed online 21 July 2014.

Mews, Constant J. “Hildegard and the Schools.” In Hildegard of Bingen andthe Context of her Thought and Art, eds. Charles Burnett and Peter Dronke. 89-110. London: Warburg Institute, 1998.

Mews, Constant J. Process Thought, Hildegard Of Bingen And Theological Tradition. Available at http://concrescence.org/ajpt_papers/vol01/01_mews.htm. Internet. Accessed 2007, March 30.

Mews, Constant J. “Religious Thinker: ‘A Frail Human Being’ on Fiery Life.” In Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. ed. Barbara Newman, 52-69. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998.

Newman, Barbara, Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard’s Theologyof the Feminine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987; reprint 1989. 

Somfai, Anna. “Hildegard of Bingen: The Power of Vision and the Vision of Power.” In Issues in Medieval Philosophy ed. Nancy van Deusen. Ottawa : The Institute of Medieval Music, 2001.

Tsakiropoulou-Summers, Tatiana. “Hildegard of Bingen: Teutonic Prophetess.” In WomenWriting Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe vol. 2. eds. Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown and Jane E. Jeffrey, 133-172. New York, 2002.

SCIVIAS

Critical Editions & Complete Translations

Hildegardis Bingensis, Scivias. A. Führkötter, A. Carlevaris eds., Corpus Christianorum Scholars Version vols. 43, 43A. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003) 

Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias. trans. Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop. Paulist Press 1990.

Hildegard of Bingen. Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen: The English Translation from the Critical Latin Edition. trans. Bruce Hozeski. Bear & Co. 1985.

abridged translations

LIBER VITAE MERITORUM
Critical Editions & Translations
Hildegardis Bingensis, Liber vitae meritorum. A. Carlevaris ed. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 90 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1995) 


Hildegard of Bingen. The Book of the Rewards of Life: Liber Vitae Meritorum. trans. Bruce W. Hozeski. Oxford University Press. 1997.

abridged Translations

LIBER DIVINORUM OPERUM

Critical Editions & Translations

Hildegardis Bingensis, Liber divinorum operum. A. Derolez and P. Dronke eds., Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis CCCM 92 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996) 

abridged translations

Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Workswith Letters and Songs. Abridged. Edited by Matthew Fox with Translation by Robert Cunningham et al. Santa Fe: Bear and Co, 1987

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FICTION et al.
Dyrek, G.M. The Seer and the Scribe: Spear of Destiny. Luminis Books. 2011.

Kampås, Ingrid. Drottningkronan: Slakten del 5. Historiska Media. 2013.

Lachman, Barbara. The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen: Bell Tower. Harmony. 1995.

O'Hanneson, Joan. Scarlet Music: A Life of Hildegard von Bingen (Crossroad Fiction Program). Crossroad Publishing Company. 1997.

Ray, Joyce. Feathers & Trumpets, a Story of Hildegard of Bingen. Apprentice Shop Books. 2014

Sharratt, Mary. Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen. Mariner Books. 2013

ONLINE VIDEO
Hildegard Society Channel on Youtube

CINEMA
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)


RADIO & PODCASTS
Hildegard of Bingen. In Our Time. BBC Radio 4. June 26, 2014.  

Hildegard of Bingen: Sybil of the Rhine. Harmonia. Indiana Public Radio. Program (01-11) 2002.

RECORDINGS

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RELATED SOURCES

HILDEGARD SOURCES Wiesbaden "Giant" Codex Hs.2 digital online Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis, in Analecta Sacra vol. 8 edited by Jean-Baptiste Pitra (Monte Cassino, 1882). Patrologia Latina vol. 197 (1855). BIBLOGRAPHIC DATABASES Hildegard von Bingen - Online sources Hildegard at MUGI Grundseite - maintained by Dr. Barbara Stühlmeyer WorldCat Search Results (6,001 items, 228 theses/diss.)   2014 (88 items, 1 new thesis)   2013 (160 items, 5 new theses)   2012 (202  items, 4  new theses) SOCIETIES & ORGANIZATIONS The Benedictine Abbey of Saint Hildegard Hildegard Center for the Arts Hildegard at Other Women's Voices International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress at Leeds International Boethius Society  MEDIEVAL SOURCES Early Manuscripts at Oxford - Online facsimiles Monumenta Germaniae Historica - digital project E-Codices - Virtual MS Library of Switzerland Codices Electronici Sangallenses - St. Gall MS online Utrecht Psalter - Complete digital facsimile of Ms 32   MEDIEVAL STUDIES GENERAL The Rule of St. Benedict - at OSB.org The Orb - Online reference book for Medieval Studies * Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Language links A Cool Latin Website - www.grexlat.com  The Latin Library - at the Classics Page Latin Teaching Materials  Medieval Latin Online Omniglot - an online guide to written languages

CHANT RESOURCES Ambrosian Chant et al (online Chants) Antiphonale Sacrasanctae (online) - Divine Office Chants Archivium Liturgicum Sacrosanctae (online Chants) Barbara Haggh-Huglo - University of Maryland, College Park Breviary.net - Parallel translation of Divine Office CANTUS / LMLO Searchable database CANTUS - A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant CANTUS PLANUS - Chant Database at Regensberg CURSUS Project - Medeival Liturgical Texts Divine Music Project - Byzantine resource DScriptorium - Digital Scriptorium Gregorian Chant on the Net - many, many links LaTrobe University - Medieval Manuscript Database Liber Usualis Online Liturgical Texts Project - by Fr. Hieromonk Aidan Latin Vulgate online - with parallel Douay English Medieval Source Book - at Fordham University Musicologie médiévale - Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - Source readings  MUSIC GENERAL Discography of Hildegard's music LIBRARIES & MUSEUMS Hessiche Landesbibliothek Wiesbaden Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - at St. John's University Library of Congress - US Paleographical and Epigraphical aids Anglo-Norman Paleography course - Uof Leicester Medeival Manuscripts in Facsimile - some medieval musical notation Medieval Writing Online MATERIALI DIDATTICI per la paleografia latina - At the University of Cassino Exercises in Latin Paleography The Vindolanda Tablets Online Online E-Texts Bernardi Claraevallensis - Opera Omnia online Bibliotheca Augustana - Online Latin texts Celtic Literature Collective - Irish, Welsh and Latin Columbia University Online Text Services - links Early Christian Writings Online - Gnostics et al. IntraText - Online Latin, German, Philosophy et al. The Perseus Digital Library- Source Readings of Classical Texts Project Gutenberg - Sacred-texts Online - Virtual Xn-ity Bibles - Easy way to build foreign vocab Wabash Center - World Religion e-resources SPIRITUALITY & RECEPTION HISTORIES CATHOLICApostolic Letter proclaiming St. Hildegard Doctor of the Church CREATION SPIRITUALITY Matthew Fox at Matthewfox.org Heresy or Hope?: A Critique of Matthew Fox's Creation Spirituality - by Lawrence Osbourne of Dialogue Ireland Barbara Newman, “Romancing the Past: A Critical Look at Matthew Fox and the Medieval Creation Mystics,” Touchstone 5 (1992), pp. 5 - 10.