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The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
  • Edited by Jennifer Bain
  • Published online:
    28 October 2021
    Print publication:
    04 November 2021
  • This specially commissioned collection of thirteen essays explores the life and works of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), monastic founder, leader of a community of nuns, composer, active correspondent, and writer of religious visions, theological treatises, sermons, and scientific and medical texts. Aimed at advanced university students and new Hildegard researchers, the essays provide a broad context for Hildegard's life and monastic setting, and offer comprehensive discussions on each of the main areas of her output. Engagingly written by experts in medieval history, theology, German literature, musicology, and the history of medicine, the essays are grounded in Hildegard's twelfth-century context, and investigate her output within its monastic and liturgical environments, her reputation during and after her life, and the materiality of the transmission of her works, considering aspects of manuscript layout, illumination, and scribal practices at her Rupertsberg monastery.

  • 27 - Education and learning

  • from PART III - THEMES AND PROBLEMS
  • Edited by Paul Fouracre, University of Manchester
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 December 2005, pp 735-759

  • Summary

    During the sixth and seventh centuries, the political break-up affected the economic and social structures of the Roman world only partially, and even of its education and culture. Whilst amongst the Roman nobility of the towns and the provinces family education was retaining its ancient place, the bishoprics and the monasteries were gradually taking over the public schools of the late Empire. All cultural activity, writing or reading, heard or read exegesis, the spiritual discourse of the confabulatio, right up to the conceptual systematisation of a theological discussion on God, is integrated into a specifically religious activity. The ideal of clerical life and of clerical training, and the practice of a language intelligently appropriate to the new conditions of the exercise of preaching, were to exert a lasting influence on the culture of the clergy, and on the oral teaching dispensed to Christian people by sermons and by the private reading of the Bible.