Sister of Wisdom: St.Hildegard of Bingen's Theology of the Feminine

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.

With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history.

• Author
• Barbara Newman

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• University of California Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780520211629

• Genres
• feminism, womens, christianity, biography, history

• Release date
• 1998