Allegorical Form And Theory In Hildegard Of BingenS Books Of Visions (The New Middle Ages)
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN13:
9783031171918
$128.71
This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge. It describes how the visionarys use of allegory and allegorical exegesis is linked to theories of cognition, interpretation, and prophecy. It argues that the form of the allegorical vision is not just the product of a medieval symbolic mentality, but specific to Hildegards position and the major transformations taking place in the prescholastic intellectual milieu, such as the changing use of Scripture or the shift from traditional hermeneutics to cognitive language philosophy. The book shows that Hildegard uses traditional forms of knowledge prophecy, the vision, monastic theology, allegorical hermeneutics in startlingly innovative ways by combining them and by revising them for her own time.
- | Author: Dinah Wouters
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Dec 06, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 302 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 3031171918
- | ISBN-13: 9783031171918
- Author:
- Dinah Wouters
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- Dec 06, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 302 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 3031171918
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031171918