Posthumous work
Life of Saint Hildegard
Vita sanctae Hildegardis
The principal source for her biography: childhood, enclosure, visions, move to Rupertsberg, illnesses, journeys and death, with the miracles the genre requires. Its exceptional value lies in the first-person passages, where Hildegard narrates her life as a succession of resistances, illnesses and obediences. Included here as a posthumous work from her immediate circle, not as her own writing.
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Authorship note
Written by Gottfried of Disibodenberg (book I, c. 1174–1176) and completed by Theoderich of Echternach (books II–III, c. 1180–1190). It incorporates autobiographical fragments dictated by Hildegard herself, unique in their kind. Critical edition: Klaes, CCCM 126 (1993).
Editions and translations
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English
Hildegard of Bingen
Two Hagiographies: Vita sancti Rupperti confessoris; Vita sancti Dysibodi episcopi (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations)
The Conscious LibraryTwo Hagiographies: Vita sancti Rupperti confessoris; Vita sancti Dysibodi episcopi (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations)
Peeters, 2010
Translation: Hugh Feiss y Christopher P. Evans
ISBN 9789042923188
Edición bilingüe de las dos vidas escritas por Hildegarda; se lista aquí por afinidad. ISBN visto en búsqueda de Open Library.
Selected Writings
Penguin Classics, 2001
Translation: Mark Atherton
ISBN 9780140436044
Antología de visiones, cartas y cantos.
Español
Vida y visiones de Hildegard von Bingen
Siruela, 2001
Translation: Victoria Cirlot (ed.)
ISBN 9788478445431
Antología con la Vita y selección de visiones; reed. 2009: 9788498413335.
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
- Homilies on the Gospels · 1170
- Minor Works · 1170
- 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
- Gottfried de Disibodenberg y Theoderich de Echternach. Vita sanctae Hildegardis. Ed. Monika Klaes. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 126. Turnhout: Brepols, 1993. Trad. inglesa en Anna Silvas, Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998 (University Park: Penn State Press, 1999).
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