Overview
- Reads Hildegard from a literary viewpoint rather than historical, theological, or spiritual
- Takes into account early scholasticism, modern allegorical theory, and questions of language and cognition
- Opens up new approaches to a female monastic author of the twelfth century
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dinah Wouters received her PhD in Latin literature from Ghent University, Belgium. She co-founded the research group RELICS and the open access journal JOLCEL, which promotes the study of Latin literature as a European literature. Her current project studies the impact of early modern Latin drama on a European scale.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions
Authors: Dinah Wouters
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17192-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17191-8Published: 06 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17194-9Published: 06 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17192-5Published: 05 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 291
Topics: Medieval Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Hermeneutics, Medieval Philosophy, History of Medieval Europe, History, general