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Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen

Author:
Mary Sharratt
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Tavia Gilbert
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Release Date
November 26, 2012
Duration
9 hours 44 minutes
Summary
Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

Offered to the Church at the age of eight, Hildegard was entombed in a small room where she was expected to live out her days in silent submission as the handmaiden of a renowned but disturbed young nun, Jutta von Sponheim. Instead, Hildegard rejected Jutta's masochistic piety and found comfort and grace in studying books, growing herbs, and rejoicing in her own secret visions of the divine. When Jutta died some thirty years later, Hildegard broke out of her prison with the heavenly calling to speak and write about her visions and to liberate her sisters and herself from the soul-destroying anchorage. Riveting and utterly unforgettable, Illuminations is a deeply moving portrayal of a woman willing to risk everything for what she believed.
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen

Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen

Author: Mary Sharratt
Read by: Tavia Gilbert
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