Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language : An Edition, Translation, and Discussion

Name: Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9781403976734
Price: 21600 KES
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ISBN: 9781403976734

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by S. Higley

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Format Hardback

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

KSh 21,600.00

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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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