Edward L. Risden Libros

Focusing on the life of Hildegard of Bingen, this dramatic novella highlights key events such as her visionary experiences, acceptance by the Church, and the establishment of her abbey. It delves into themes of spiritual doubt, personal achievement, and the impact of kindness and resolve. The narrative showcases how one dedicated individual can effect profound change, even amidst adversity, contributing to the growing body of work celebrating her remarkable influence as a mystic, physician, and composer in the Middle Ages.

While poets have traditionally inhabited cultural margins, prophets have brought poetic language to the center of cultural debate, not foretelling the future so much as diagnosing the present. This exciting collection of nine essays examines the range of social and political implications that inflects poetic discourse, from the Old English and Latin texts of the Anglo-Saxon world to the Scotland and England of the Renaissance. Whether saints' lives, Germanic heroic epics, chronicles, or satiric poems, the works discussed in this book retain their verbal power, if not their political influence, into our own time.