Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church
Thursday, April 30, 2020
8:00PM ET
Registration required
Together with the Lumen Christi Institute, we will cosponsor the fourth installment of the spring webinar series, Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought. Renowned medievalist Barbara Newman, will present on “Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church.” The webinar will be held on Zoom at 8:00PM ET (7:00PM CT) on Thursday, April 30th. The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.
A German Benedictine Abbess, Hildegard (1098-1169) produced works of visionary theology drawn from her mystical vision and one of the largest surviving collections of medieval musical compositions.
As a female religious in the 12th century, she held a remarkable influence in the Church through preaching tours across Germany and correspondence with popes, emperors, and other monastic reformers. In 2012, she was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI.
This event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required. For more information and to register for this webinar, click here.
Barbara Newman is John Evans Professor of Latin; and Professor of English, Religious Studies, and Classics at Northwestern University. Her work is focused upon medieval religious culture, comparative literature, and women's spirituality. She has authored or edited 10 books, most recently a translation of Mechthild of Hackeborn's The Book of Special Grace (2017) She has also written three books on Hildegard of Bingen: an edited volume, Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (1998); an edition and translation of Hildegard's collected songs, Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1988, rev. 1998); and Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (1987). Professor Newman has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. Professor Newman is a past president of the Medieval Academy of America