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Scivias is an illustrated work by Hildegard von Bingen, completed in 1151 or 1152, describing 26 religious visions she experienced. It is the first of three works that she wrote describing her visions, the others being Liber vitae meritorum and De operatione Dei (also known as Liber divinorum operum ).
Hildegard of Bingen OSB, (German: Hildegard von Bingen, pronounced [ˈhɪldəɡaʁt fɔn ˈbɪŋən]; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and ...
Illumination from Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias (1151) showing her receiving a vision and dictating to Volmar. Volmar (died 1173) was a Saint Disibod monk who acted as prior and father confessor for the nuns at Disibodenberg. He was one of two teachers of Hildegard of Bingen during her early years, the other being Jutta.
The religious career of Hildegard of Bingen began at seven when she joined her aunt Jutta, a recluse. [49] Their retreat was later turned into a convent where Hildegard became a nun at fourteen. [49] She wrote letters, visions, prophecies, songs, and morality plays. She was known as a prophet to all her contemporaries such as Bernard of ...
The Wiesbaden Codex, one of Hildegard of Bingen's two major collections of work. The German Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen is among the most important medieval composers. She is the earliest known woman composer in Western classical music, and an important exponent of sacred music during the High Middle Ages.
The film depicts Hildegard's diplomatic (sometime manipulative) skills to understand men and their vanities in order to found her own convent. It captures Hildegard’s love of happiness, mankind and their connectedness to faith. Vision made its European debut in 2009 and is being distributed in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films [4] starting October ...
The Dendermonde Codex or sometimes called Villarenser Kodex or codex 9 of Dendermonde Abbey, [1] is a valuable manuscript containing the Symphonia harmoniae caelestium revelationum of Hildegard of Bingen. [2]
Hildegard of Bingen received no traditional education in composition, nor was she trained to play instruments. [citation needed] She was "self-taught," although not in a way that many people would expect. Her whole life, Hildegard of Bingen claimed to be both clairvoyant and clairaudient. The music came to her in trances.