A Living Light

by E.L. Risden

Book Overview

A Living Light explores some of the major events in the life of Hildegard of Bingen: mystic, physician, composer, and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Middle Ages. In the form of a dramatic novella, it telescopes to such life-changing events as the courageous recording of her visions, the Church's acceptance of her accounts of prophetic experience, the formation of her own abbey, and the interdiction against her nuns for the burial of a revolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606080911
• ISBN13: 9781606080917
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"