>Another good case study is Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century
>churchwoman from the Rhine. Bear and Co. in Santa Fe was the first
>house to translate her works into English in the early 80s. She had
>long been dismissed as a mystic
Hildegard was also the composer of some interesting (and somewhat
significant) music, including (unless you want to go back to the Greek
dramatists) what is arguably the first proto-opera in the western
repertoire. Some of her work has appeared on disc in the last few
years, and if you like Mediaeval music (as I do) it is certainly worth
a listen.
In working as a philosopher/mystic --- poet --- composer, she presaged
the Renaissance in many ways. Now, if she'd only published a treatise
on agricultural matters we could spend a lot more time discussing her
work on this list --- but it was several hundred years before anyone
came up with anything to improve on the classic Roman agricultural
writers.
Bart
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