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Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages - Marilyn R. Mumford (Essay Date 1993)

MARILYN R. MUMFORD (ESSAY DATE 1993)

SOURCE: Mumford, Marilyn R. "A Feminist Prolegomenon for the Study of Hildegard of Bingen." In Gender, Culture, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society, edited by Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers, pp. 44-53. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1993.

In the following excerpt, Mumford focuses on the contemporary feminist rediscovery of Hildegard of Bingen as the embodiment of the "modern women's spiritual quest."

The past decade has seen a great surge of interest in the works of Hildegard of Bingen, abbess and visionary who lived from 1098 to 1179. One of the first persons to call attention to Hildegard in the 1980s was the feminist artist Judy Chicago, who invited her to the magical "Dinner Party" that has since appeared in twelve major museums in the United States and Canada.1

More recently, Hildegard's theology, music, poetry, and images have...

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