Hildegarda z Bingen

Dzieła

• 1151Scivias

  „Poznaj drogi”: dwadzieścia sześć wizji stworzenia, odkupienia i końca czasów wraz z ich wykładnią.

Stanowisko

From childhood Hildegard had visions, which she began to record in 1141 at a divine command; Pope Eugene III encouraged her work. In Scivias and later books she describes what she saw – the cosmos, the fall, redemption and the end of time – and interprets it. Her central idea is viriditas, the “greening power”: God’s vital force that makes plants grow and keeps body and soul healthy. The human being is a microcosm mirroring the whole cosmos. She also wrote on nature and medicine and composed over seventy liturgical songs and the sung morality play Ordo Virtutum. In 2012 she was declared a Doctor of the Church.

Życie i kontekst

Hildegard was born in 1098 at Bermersheim near Alzey, the tenth child of a noble family, and as a girl was entrusted to the anchoress Jutta at the monastery of Disibodenberg. In 1136 she succeeded Jutta as head of the women’s community, later founding her own convents at Rupertsberg near Bingen and at Eibingen. She corresponded with popes and emperors, undertook preaching journeys and died in 1179.

Dalsze główne dzieła

• The Book of Life’s Merits (Liber vitae meritorum, 1158–1163)
• The Book of Divine Works (Liber divinorum operum, 1163–1174)
• Physica (c. 1150–1160)
• Ordo Virtutum (c. 1151)