Hildegard of Bingen's unknown language : an edition, translation, and discussion / Sarah L. Higley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.

Contributor:

Higley, Sarah Lynn.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Standardized Title:

Lingua ignota. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179--Language--Glossaries, etc.

Hildegard.

Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.

Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Latin language.

Spirituality.

Mysticism.

English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

English language.

Mysticism--Dictionaries.

Spirituality--Dictionaries.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Dictionaries.

Controlled vocabularies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Contents:

The Lingua ignota and its place within a history of language invention

Introduction: Hildegard's language as vineyard and edifice

An unknown language by a visionary woman

Glossolalia and glossographia

Medieval language philosophy

Fifteenth- to nineteenth-century language inventions

Play and aesthetic in contemporary language invention

Greening language : Hildegard's monastery garden

Manuscripts, edition, and translation of the Lingua ignota

Manuscript information

Notes to Manuscript information

The Riesencodex Lingua ignota with additions from the Berlin MS

Notes to the translation

Hildegard's Lingua alphabetized.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-237) and index.

ISBN:

1403976732

9781403976734

OCLC:

122309357

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Contributor biographical information

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