The Medieval Church · 1141–1151
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Hildegard of Bingen · 1098–1179
What it is
Twenty-six visions of creation, redemption, and the church, each described and then explained by a voice from heaven, and illustrated under her direction.
Why it lasted
The work that made a German abbess into a public authority, approved by a pope and by Bernard, and the beginning of a body of visionary theology unlike anything else in the century.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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