Hildegard of Bingen
Pentachronon, or Mirror of Future Times
Later compilation
Pentachronon, or Mirror of Future Times
Pentachronon sive Speculum futurorum temporum
A selection, arranged in five ages of the world, of Hildegard's prophecies on clerical corruption, the coming of heretics and the Antichrist. Through it the later Middle Ages knew Hildegard more as a prophetess than as a theologian or physician; it circulated widely among Cistercians and Franciscans.
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Authorship note
Not a work by Hildegard but an anthology of prophetic passages from her writings (chiefly Scivias, the Liber divinorum operum and the letters) compiled around 1220 by Gebeno, Cistercian prior of Eberbach, in connection with efforts toward her canonisation. It was one of the most widely read apocalyptic works of the Middle Ages.
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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 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
Sources
- Hayton, Magda. «Publishing Hildegard: The Creation and Circulation of the Pentachronon in the Thirteenth Century». Seminario, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 8 de marzo de 2017 (resumen publicado).
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