Hildegard of Bingen
Homilies on the Gospels
Written work
Homilies on the Gospels
Expositiones evangeliorum
The only surviving collection of homilies by a medieval woman. Hildegard explains each pericope two or more times with different keys (the history of salvation, the individual soul, creation), in an allegorical method of great freedom that turns, for instance, the parable of the prodigal son into a drama of soul and body.
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Authorship note
Fifty-eight homilies on twenty-seven Gospel pericopes, preached to her nuns and collected in the Riesencodex. Critical edition: Kienzle and Muessig, CCCM 226 (2007).
Editions and translations
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English
Hildegard of Bingen
Homilies on the Gospels
The Conscious LibraryHomilies on the Gospels
Liturgical Press (Cistercian Publications), 2011
Translation: Beverly Mayne Kienzle
ISBN 9780879072414
Other works by Hildegard of Bingen
- Scivias (Know the Ways) · 1151
- The Book of Life's Merits (The Book of the Rewards of Life) · 1163
- The Book of Divine Works · 1174
- Physica (Book of the Subtleties of Creatures) · 1158
- Causes and Cures · 1158
- Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations · 1158
- Ordo Virtutum (The Play of the Virtues) · 1151
- Unknown Language and Unknown Letters · 1158
- Letters · 1179
- Minor Works · 1170
- Life of Saint Hildegard · 1187
- Life of Saint Disibod · 1170
- Life of Saint Rupert · 1170
- Explanation of the Rule of Benedict
- An Explanation of the Athanasian Creed
- Solutions to Thirty-Eight Questions · 1176
- On the Excellence of Saint Martin
- Pentachronon, or Mirror of Future Times · 1220
Sources
- International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies: bibliografía, lista de manuscritos y recursos académicos.
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