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Sister of Wisdom - by Barbara Newman (Paperback)

Sister of Wisdom - by  Barbara Newman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This is simply the best book ever done on St. Hildegard in English--a well-conceptualized work of remarkable erudition and vigorous style. Medievalists will love it, and it will generate debate in the field."--Robert I. Burns, S. J.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things.<br /><br />With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, <i>Sister of Wisdom</i> is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This is simply the best book ever done on St. Hildegard in English--a well-conceptualized work of remarkable erudition and vigorous style. Medievalists will love it, and it will generate debate in the field.--Robert I. Burns, S. J.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"At long last there has appeared an English-language book worthy of the person it studies. . . . Hildegard of Bingen was an exuberantly complex visualist and thinker; Dr. Newman's book is an excellent way of being introduced to Hildegard's sapiential visuals and thought."--"Adris Newsletter<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Barbara Newman</b> is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University.

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