Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language : An Edition, Translation, and Discussion
Annotated
by
S. Higley
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The New Middle Ages
ISBN-10
1403976732
ISBN-13
9781403976734
Edition
Annotated
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 2008
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 22.30 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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This book is an edition, translation, and philosophical commentary on Hildegard of Bingen''sUnknown Language, a list of the things of her twelfth-century world recast in words of her own creation.
The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it within a history of imaginary language making from medieval times to the most contemporary projects in efforts to uncover this woman s bold involvement in an intellectual and creative endeavor that spans centuries.
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