Hildegard of Bingen bibliography and discography

This article is a list of books written on the subject of Hildegard of Bingen, the prolific Medieval artist, author, counselor, dramatist, linguist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, poet, political consultant, prophet, visionary and composer of music. It also compiles a discography of selected musical works on CD.

Bibliography

elected English translations of Hildegard

*Atherton, Mark, trans. "Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings". London: Penguin, 2001.

*Baird, Joseph L. (trans.), Radd K. Ehrman. "The letters of Hildegard of Bingen". New York : Oxford University Press, 3 vols.,1994-2004. ISBN 0-19-508937-5

*Baird, Joseph L, "The Personal Correspondence of Hildegard of Bingen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-530823-9

*—, trans. "The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen". Vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

*—, trans. "The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen". Vol. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

*Bowie, Fiona and Oliver Davies, eds. "Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology". London: SPCK, 1990.

*Butcher, Carmen Acevedo. "Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader". Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2007.

*—. "Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics". Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2005.

*Dronke, Peter, ed. and trans. "Ordo virtutum, The Play of the Virtues". In Nine Medieval Latin Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 147-84.

*Feiss, Hugh, trans. "Explanation of the Rule of St. Benedict by Hildegard of Bingen". Peregrina Translation Series. 1990. Toronto: Peregrina, 1996.

*—, trans. "The Life of Hildegard of Bingen by Gottfried of Disibodenberg and Theodoric of Echternach". Peregrina Translation Series. Toronto: Peregrina, 1996.

*Flanagan, Sabina, trans. "Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen". Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1996.

*Fox, Matthew, ed. "Book of Divine Works, with Letters and Songs". Trans. Robert Cunningham, et al. Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1987.

*Führkötter, Adelgundis, and James McGrath. "The Life of Holy Hildegard by the Monks Gottfried and Theodoric". Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1980.

*Hart, Columba and Jane Bishop, trans. "Scivias". Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8091-3130-7

*Hozeski, Bruce W., trans. "The Book of the Rewards of Life" ("Liber vitae meritorum"). New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-511371-3

*McInerney, Maud Burnett, ed. "Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays". New York: Garland Pub., 1998. ISBN 0-8153-2588-6

*Newman, Barbara, ed. and trans. "Hildegard of Bingen: Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum". Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.

General commentary on Hildegard

*Burnett, Charles and Peter Dronke, eds. "Hildegard of Bingen: The Context of Her Thought and Art". The Warburg Colloquia. London: The University of London, 1998.

*Cherewatuk, Karen and Ulrike Wiethaus, eds. "Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre". Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

*Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl. "The Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies". Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992. ISBN 1-879288-17-6

*Dronke, Peter. "Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete". 1984. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

*Flanagan, Sabina. "Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life". London: Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-7607-1361-8

*King-Lenzmeier, Anne H. "Hildegard of Bingen: An Integrated Vision". Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001.

*Maddocks, Fiona. "Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age". New York: Image Books/Doubleday, 2003.

*Newman, Barbara. "Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine". Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

*—, ed. "Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World". Berkeley: University of California, 1998.

*Pernoud, Régine. "Hildegard of Bingen: Inspired Conscience of the Twelfth Century". Translated by Paul Duggan. NY: Marlowe & Co., 1998.

*Schipperges, Heinrich. "The World of Hildegard of Bingen: Her Life, Times, and Visions". Trans. John Cumming. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999.

*Wilson, Katharina. "Medieval Women Writers". Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984.

On Hildegard's illuminations

*Fox, Matthew. "Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen". Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1985. ISBN 1-879181-97-5

*Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, "Women Artists: 1550-1950", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976. ISBN 0-394-73326-6

Other background reading

*Barber, Richard. "Bestiary: MS Bodley 764". Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999.

*Boyce-Tillman, June. "The Creative Spirit: Harmonious Living with Hildegard of Bingen", Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-8192-1882-0

*Butcher, Carmen Acevedo. "Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict". Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2006.

*Bynum, Caroline Walker. "Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women". Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

*—. "Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336". New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

*Chadwick, Whitney. "Women, Art, and Society," Thames and Hudson, London, 1990. ISBN 0-500-20354-7

*Constable, Giles Constable. "The Reformation of the Twelfth Century". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

*Dronke, Peter, ed. "A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

*Holweck, the Rt. Reverend Frederick G., "A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, with a General Introduction on Hagiology". 1924. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 1990.

*Lachman, Barbara. "The Journal of Hildegard of Bingen: A Novel". New York: Crown, 1993.

*—. "Hildegard: The Last Year". Boston: Shambhala, 1997.

*McBrien, Richard. "Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa". San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.

*McKnight, Scot. "The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus". Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2006.

*Newman, Barbara. "Sister of wisdom : St. Hildegard's theology of the feminine". Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987. ISBN 0-520-06615-4

*Newman, Barbara trans. "Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum". Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1988.

*Newman, Barbara. "God and the Goddesses". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1911-2

*O’Donohue, John. "Anam Ċara". New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

*Ohanneson, Joan. "Scarlet Music. Hildegard of Bingen: A Novel". New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1997.

*Pelikan, Jaroslav. "Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture". New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

*Sacks, Oliver. "Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder". 1985. Reprint. London: Vintage Books, 1999.

*Santos Paz, José Carlos, ed. "La Obra de Gebenón de Eberbach". Firenze: SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004.

*Sherman, Bernard D. “‘Mistaking the Tail for the Comet’: An Interview with Christopher

*Silvas, Anna. "Jutta and Hildegard: The Biographical Sources". University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-271-01954-9

*Sweet, Victoria. "Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Medieval Medicine." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1999, 73:381-403.

*Sweet, Victoria. "Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine." New York: Routledge Press, 2006. ISBN 0-415-97634-0

*Ulrich, Ingeborg. "Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Healer, Companion of the Angels". Trans. Linda M. Maloney. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993.

*Ward, Benedicta. "Miracles and the Medieval Mind". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1987.

*Weeks, Andrew. "German mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein : a literary and intellectual history". Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. ISBN 0-7914-1419-1

Hildegard in the original Latin

*Carlevaris, Angela, ed. "Liber vite meritorum" ("Hildegardis Bingensis"). CCCM 90. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1995.

*Derolez, Albert, ed. Guibert of Gembloux, "Epistolae". CCCM 66-66a. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1988, 1989.

*— and Peter Dronke, eds. "Liber divinorum operum" ("Hildegardis Bingensis"). CCCM 92. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1996.

*Führkötter, Adelgundis and Angela Carlevaris, eds. "Scivias" ("Hildegardis Bingensis"). CCCM 43, 43A. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003.

*Kaiser, Paul, ed. "Causae et curae". Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.

*Klaes, Monika, ed. "Gottfried of Disibodenberg and Theoderich of Echtenach, Vita sanctae Hildegardis" ("Hildegardis Bingensis"). CCCM 126. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1993.

*Migne, Jacques Paul, ed. "Sanctae Hildegardis Abbatissae Opera Omnia in Patrologia Latina". Volume 197, cols. 383-738. Paris: Migne, 1855.

*Pitra, Jean-Baptiste, ed. "Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis Opera". "Analecta Sacra", vol. 8. Monte Cassino: Typis Sacri Montis Casinensis, 1882.

*Van Acker, Lieven, ed. "Epistolarium I (I-XC)" ("Hildegardis Bingensis"). CCCM 91. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1991.

*—, ed. "Epistolarium II (XCI-CCLr.)" ("Hildegardis Bingensis"). CCCM 91A. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1993.

Discography

*"900 Years: Hildegard von Bingen". Sequentia. Box Set (8 discs). RCA 77505, 1998.

*"11,000 Virgins: Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula". Anonymous 4, Harmonia Mundi 907200, 1997.

*"Aurora". Sinfonye, dir. Stevie Wishart. Vol. 2. Celestial Harmonies 13128, 1997.

*"The Emma Kirkby Collection". Christopher Page, Hyperion 66227, 1993.

*"A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen". Gothic Voices, dir. Christopher Page, Emma Kirkby (soprano). Hyperion DCA 66039, 1981.

*"Gesänge der hl. Hildegard von Bingen". Schola der Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Hildegard, dir. M.-I. Ritscher. Bayer 100116, 1979.

*"Hildegard of Bingen: The Harmony of Heaven". Ellen Oak, Bison Publications 1, 1996.

*"Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy". Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 05472-77320-2, 1994.

*"Hildegard von Bingen: Heavenly Revelations". Oxford Camerata, dir. Jeremy Summerly. Naxos 8.550998, 1994.

*"Hildegard von Bingen: Hildegard von Bingen". Garmarna. Music Network Records Group AB, MNWCD 365, 2001.

*"Hildegard von Bingen und ihre Zeit: Geistliche Musik des 12". Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg, Christophorus 74584, 1990.

*"Jouissance". Viriditas, dir. Juliette Hughes. Spectrum/Cistercian Publications, ISBN 0-86786-344-7, 1993.

*"The Lauds of St. Ursula". Early Music Institute, dir. Thomas Binkley. Focus 911, 1991.

*"Monk and the Abbess: Music of Hildegard von Bingen and Meredith Monk". Musica Sacra, dir. Richard Westenburg, Catalyst 09026-68329-2, 1996.

*"O nobilissima viriditas". Catherine Schroeder, et al. Champeaux CSM 0006, 1995.

*"O nobilissima viriditas". Sinfonye, dir. Stevie Wishart. Vol. 3. Celestial Harmonies 13129, 2004.

*"Ordo Virtutum". Vox Animae, dir. Michael Fields. Etcetera Record Company BV CD KTC 1203, 1995.

*"Hildegard von Bingen In Portrait". (inc. "Ordo Virtutum" Vox Animae, dir. Michael Fields). Includes "Hildegard", dramatised BBC documentary starring Patricia Routledge; "A Real Mystic", interview and lecture with Professor Michael Fox; "A Source of Inspiration", Washington National Cathedral documentary on her life and times; "Illuminations", art gallery of her mystic visions with comments by Professor Michael Fox. Double DVD BBC/Opus Arte OA 0874 D, 2003.

*"Ordo virtutum". Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. 2 disks. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 77051-2-RG, 1982.

*"Symphoniae: Geistliche Gesänge". Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 770230-2-RG, 1983.

*"Symphoniae: Spiritual Songs". Sequentia. RCA 77020, 1993.

*"Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations". Sinfonye, dir. Stevie Wishart. Vol. 1. Celestial Harmonies 13127-2, 1996.

*"Unfurling Love’s Creation: Chants by Hildegard von Bingen". Norma Gentile. Lyrichord Early Music Series (LEMS) 8027, 1997.

*"Voice of the Blood". Sequentia, dir. Barbara Thornton. 2 disks. Deutsche Harmonia mundi 05472-77346-2, 1995.

External links

* [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young/trnintro.html Young, Abigail Ann. "Translations from Rupert, Hildegard, and Guibert of Gembloux". 1999. 27 March 2006.]

* [http://www.musiclisteningcontest.org/h_kcmcguire_Symphonia_Caritatis_2007.htm McGuire, K. Christian. "Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen". 2007. 14 July 2007.]