From the Monastery to the City : Hildegard of Bingen and Francis of Assisi / edited by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach, and Amanda Avila Kaminski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haight, Roger, editor.

Pach, Alfred, editor.

Kaminski, Amanda Avila, editor.

Series:

Past masters.

Past Light on Present Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This volume brings together texts of the twelfth-century Hildegard of Bingen and the early-thir­teenth-century Francis of Assisi to represent religious spirituality after the Gregorian Reform and just prior to or simultaneous with the formation of universities in Western Europe. In an extraordinary way, Hildegard embodies monastic theology and spirituality and provides a contrast to the new thing that would be created with the study of theology in the new Aristotelian idiom of the universities. But equally in contrast to the Benedictine Hildegard, the thirteenth century witnessed a renewed enthusiasm for a more literal following of Christ in a life of penitence and poverty. This is a life of dependence, not on a superior and enclosed community but on the compassion of society at large. Francis would join this movement on his own terms, attract a following, and gradually formulate a spirituality that sent signals of the need to reform individual lives and the institutions of the Church. These two authors, then, are not joined here because of any shared similarity but to help illustrate two quite different spiritualities that animated the lively European twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Hildegard of Bingen

I - Introduction to Hildegard and the Texts

II - The Texts

Hildegard on the Prologue Selection from Part I, Vision of The Divine Works

Hildegard on Creation Selection from Part II, Vision of The Divine Works

III - Retrieving Hildegard for Christian Life Today

Francis of Assisi

I - Introduction to Francis and the Texts

II - Foundational Texts of Francis

The Earlier Rule

Later Admonition and Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance

The Canticle of Creatures

A Letter to the Entire Order

The Testament

III - Retrieving Francis for Christian Life Today

Further Reading

About the Series

About the Editors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Haight, Roger From the Monastery to the City

ISBN:

9781531506032

1531506038

OCLC:

1402813401