Dorothy L. Latz is at pains to emphasise the importance for ES
of the thinking of such fellow Augustinians as (apart from St Augustine
himself), Gerard Grote
, Henry Suso
, Ruysbroeck
, Bernard of Clairvaux
Family and Intimate relationships
Coventry Patmore
CP
married his second wife, Marianne Caroline Blyes
, on 18 July 1864. Like him, she was a devoted Catholic convert. Her inherited wealth guaranteed her new husband and his children increased financial security. The...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hildegarde of Bingen
Scivias, written over a period of ten years, contains three books in which HB describes and interprets twenty-six of her visions.
Kraft, Kent. “The German Visionary: Hildegard of Bingen”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, 1984, pp. 109-30.
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Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge, 1995.
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While she was writing the book she wrote to Bernard of Clairvaux
Author summary
Winefrid Thimelby
Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century WT
expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of...
Textual Features
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Just as her seventh book, Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century, made use of the writings of Clement of Alexandria
, so this one takes St Bernard
(a correspondent of Hildegarde of Bingen
Textual Features
Hildegarde of Bingen
The quantity of HB's letters, which were collected near the end of her life, is immense.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109.
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The bulk of them were written to answer her correspondents' practical, legal, ethical, and spiritual concerns.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109.
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She...
Textual Production
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Since much of this book is composed of the translated writings of St Bernard of Clairvaux
, CFC
is sometimes listed as its translator, not its author.
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Texts
Bernard, Saint, of Clairvaux. Saint Bernard on the Love of God. Translators Patmore, Marianne Caroline and Coventry Patmore, C. Kegan Paul, 1881.