Full Description
The first collection of essays on Hildegard's wonderfully unique Ordo Virtutum, along with a reduced facsimile of the pages in Wiesbaden MS.2 that contain the drama.
Contents
Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Music and Performance: Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson The Ordo Virtutum: Ancestor of the English Moralities? by Robert Potter The Virtues of Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum
or, It Was a Woman's World by Pamela Sheingorn The Monastic Context of Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum by Julia Bolton Holloway Ego Humilitatis, regina Virtutum: Poetic Language and Literary Structure in Hildegard of Bingen's Vision of the Virtues by Gunilla Iversen The Ordo Virtutum: A Note on Production by Clifford Davidson