Where the Middle Ages Begin
Hildegard’s Medicine: A Systematic Science of Medieval Europe By Kevin Anthony Hay The Proceedings of the 17th Annual History of Medicine Days, March 7th and 8th, 2008 (University of Calgary, 2008) Abstract: The modern view of the Middle Ages is largely paternalistic, with a general understanding that ‘thought’ essentially died during these so-called “Dark Ages”. […]
Process Thought, Hildegard Of Bingen And Theological Tradition By Constant J. Mews Concrescence, Vol. 1 (2000) Introduction: Like any intellectual movement worth its salt, process thought has generated its own search for ancestors. Charles Hartshorne once suggested that its earliest progenitor might be Pharaoh Ikhenaton (1370 BCE) whose hymns speak of God `fashioning himself’ through […]
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Starring Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung and Heino Ferch Released in Germany in 2009, now released in the United States in German with English subtitles. Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of […]
Born nearly 1000 years ago, Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) remains a popular figure to this day. A polymath ahead of her time who was at once spiritual and practical, von Bingen challenged Church rules and founded two convents. She was a visionary and modern theologian who, at age 60, explained the lunar eclipse not as […]
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