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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1634: St Hildegard of Bingen, I: Theology in Poetry and Music

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Organiser:William T. Flynn, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:William T. Flynn, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1634-aHildegard's Short Morality Play: The Vision of Music in Scivias
(Language: English)
Claire Fontijn, Department of Music, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Music, Theology
Paper 1634-b'Who are these like clouds?': Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum in the Context of Her Treatise Scivias
(Language: English)
Margot Fassler, Department of Music / Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Liturgy, Music, Theology
Abstract

Two sessions devoted to recent scholarship Hildegard of Bingen's music, theology, and poetry. The sessions treat works by Hildegard in roughly chronological order, focusing on the intersections between her theological expression and the ways in which these were transmitted in poetry and music.