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Tables of Contents for Selected Writings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Life and Career
ix
Hildegard in Her Time
xvi
Hildegard's Writings
xxv
Further Reading
xlv
Select Discography
xlix
Chronology
li
Translator's Note
lvii
KNOW THE WAYS
Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux
3
3
The Action of the Will (from Scivias)
6
3
Redemption (from Scivias)
9
12
Letter to Odo of Soissons
21
2
The Trinity (from Scivias)
23
8
Letter to Pope Eugenius III
31
4
STRUGGLES FOR INDEPENDENCE
Songs for Saint Disibod
35
2
Letter to Hartwig of Bremen
37
2
Song for Saint Ursula
39
2
The Trials of the Soul (from Scivias)
41
6
Songs for Saint Rupert
47
4
The Departure of Richardis of Stade
51
2
The First Version of The Play of the Virtues (from Scivias)
53
12
THE SIBYL OF THE RHINE
Three Political Letters
65
4
Songs for the Dedication of a Church
69
2
Teachings on the Church (from Scivias)
71
8
Letter to Elisabeth of Schonau
79
3
Gertrud of Stahleck
82
2
Letter to the Abbess of Bamberg
84
5
IN PRAISE OF CREATION
The Cosmic Egg (from Scivias)
89
4
The Cosmos (from Causes and Cures)
93
13
Gemstones (from Physica)
106
9
Songs from Symphonia
115
8
Two Christmas Homilies
123
8
ALLEGORIES OF JUSTICE AND LOVE
The Iron Mountain (from Scivias)
131
5
The Man Looking East and South (from The Book of Life's Merits)
136
3
The Seven Vices and Virtues (from The Book of Life's Merits)
139
7
The Voice from Heaven (from The Book of Life's Merits)
146
15
The Unknown Language
161
2
Allegorical Letters
163
8
A Vision of Love (from The Book of Divine Works)
171
8
HILDEGARD'S LIFE AND INFLUENCE
Queries and Requests; Selected Letters to Hildegard
179
9
From The Life of Hildegard, Book 2, by Theoderich of Echternach
188
5
Gebeno of Eberbach: The Pentachronon
193
3
From the Canonization Protocol
196
9
Notes
205
32
Glossary
237