Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause Et Cure

by Margret Berger and Hildegard of Bingen

Book Overview

Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise.

Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook;it is a densely layered work woven together from diverse threads. It begins with a chapter on cosmology which leads to consideration of the human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859915514
• ISBN13: 9780859915519
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"