Vida y visiones de Hildegard von Bingen

The Life of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), written by the monk Theoderich von Echternach a few years after his death, allows a direct approach to one of the most fascinating and multifaceted figures of the European West, since it contains autobiographical passages that speak directly from your experience. Her writings on the medicinal properties of plants and the virtues of precious stones and metals manifest her ability to perceive the surrounding world, while her three great prophetic works (Liber Scivias, Liber vitae meritorum and Liber divinorum operum) They show the vision of the invisible. Driven by a visionary faculty that has made her famous, they draw the profile of an extraordinary destiny: a woman, writer and visionary who offers a feminine idea of God in the middle of the 12th century. This edition, revised and prepared by Victoria Cirlot, brings together, together with Life, the main miniatures of her visions with their corresponding texts, a selection of her significant letters, some of her liturgical songs and an epilogue in which the experience is addressed. visionary and its possibilities of understanding in our world when contrasted with artists like Max Ernst.