Hildegard of Bingen
Subtitle: A Book of Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780815325888
Subjects: Biography: general; Christian mysticism; Women's studies; World history: c 500 to C 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Religion; Medieval Church (476-1517); Women And Religion (General); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Women's Studies - General; Saint,; Essays; Hildegard; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Christianity - History - General; 1098-1179; Hildegard,
First sentence: Language and rhetoric have always been as important in the history of ideas as have been the ideas themselves, for an inarticulately expressed idea, or one left untold, is doomed to be at most a historical curiosity, at worst without power or effect.