Hildegard of Bingen Completes Scivias and Her Musical Works
Poet involved
What happened
Hildegard of Bingen, the Benedictine abbess and visionary polymath, completed her major theological work Scivias around 1151, a decade after receiving what she described as a divine command to write. Alongside her theological, medical, and scientific writings, Hildegard composed the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum, a remarkable collection of seventy-seven liturgical poems and songs set to her own music — the largest surviving body of medieval music attributable to a single composer. Her artistic output was produced at Rupertsberg near Bingen on the Rhine.
Literary impact
Hildegard's visionary Latin poetry occupies a singular position in medieval literary history: densely imagistic, symbolically bold, and strikingly personal in its assertion of divine inspiration as the source of female creative authority. Her influence on later mystical and devotional poetry — from Mechthild of Magdeburg to Julian of Norwich — was substantial. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries she has been adopted as a patron figure by writers interested in women's mysticism, body, and voice, sparking an enormous scholarly and creative literature.
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