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HILDEGARD OF BINGEN'S "UNKNOWN LANGUAGE"
AN EDITION, TRANSLATION AND DISCUSSION |
| By: |
Sarah Lynn Higley |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£129.99 |
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£126.09 |
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£3.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1403976732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781403976734 |
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Currently 1item in stock |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE USA |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2008 |
| Edition: |
Annotated edition |
| Series: |
New Middle Ages |
| Pages: |
246 |
| Description: |
This book is an edition, translation, and philosophical commentary on Hildegard of Bingen's "Unknown Language," a list of the things of her twelfth-century world recast in words of her own creation. |
| Synopsis: |
The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it within a history of imaginary language making from medieval times to the most contemporary projects in efforts to uncover this woman s bold involvement in an intellectual and creative endeavor that spans centuries. |
| Illustrations: |
6 black & white illustrations, biography |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
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Non-returnable |
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