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[...]... conceived of as the structure of the universe and the cement that holds human virtue together in the world Besides green, then, we have the crimson head of a jealous God, His wings formed from the crenellated walls of a fortress, and the Tower of Church, flames of virtue streaming from her ramparts Hildegard s language I 4 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN’S UNKNOWN LANGUAGE demonstrates a unique linguistic development of. .. a “maker of language.” This book, then, makes Hildegard the center of a study of language invention over the ages With the help of the Latin and German glosses, it edits and translates in full the Riesencodex recension of her Ignota Lingua (assisted by the extra translations provided by the Berlin MS) Despite the often random quality of her imaginary words, it focuses on the ordered nature of her prefixes,... taken of Hildegard in general is due to a confluence of popular and scholarly developments in the twentieth century: the discovery of her music and our ability to record it has made her famous to the public at large, and the growing interest in homeopathy and natural healing have produced translations of Hildegard s Physica For 14 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN’S UNKNOWN LANGUAGE auditors and musicologists, Hildegard. .. and arrangements.25 Both Grimm and Roth were disturbed by the frankness of the list of body parts (Körperteil) in the Lingua, both of them focusing on Hildegard s gender and calling Grimm declares that the parts of the body enumerated “seem indelicate [“nicht ziemlich”] in the mind or in the mouth of a virgin, much less a religious.”26 Roth was more outraged: “Indeed, the production of utterly obscene... Trithemius, author of Steganographia (1499) 16 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN’S UNKNOWN LANGUAGE or “covered writing,” and himself an inventor of mysterious languages and scripts, was responsible for publicizing Hildegard s “Unknown Letters” in his Polygraphia (1508), but as Michael Embach has noted, he makes no mention of the Lingua that accompanies them.23 The controversial discussion of Hildegard s “Unknown... production of this woman Further, Hildegard is best known as one gifted with mystical vision that transcended her humble abilities: so the common nature of most of her invented words belies the cherished portrait we have of her in the Rupertsburg manuscript, the flames of the Living Light streaming down upon her head as she writes on her wax tablet for her astonished scribe This concept of Hildegard. .. section explicating the opening of the Gospel of John, shows how God’s Word contains and creates all creatures, and how the heat of God’s Word, sent by the prophet John, made the aridity of human flesh green again.59 Green in English, however, evokes a sense of naiveté, a lack of experience or sophistication Both Hildegard and the Internet language inventors have been accused of such in their inventions... books of the Scivias,6 the Epistles,7 the Liber vite meritorum,8 the Liber divinorum operum,9 with the Symphonia and Ordo virtutum in preparation Meanwhile, interest in women and spirituality has brought Hildegard out of her scholastic sanctuary: led by the writings of Peter Dronke and Barbara Newman, numerous English translations and discussions of Hildegard s works were produced, along with analyses of. .. embarrassing—a secret vice.17 Compare this attitude to Hildegard s brazen announcement of her Lingua to Pope Anastasius, proof of her right to counsel him.18 Besides Hildegard, the famous female inventors of language are recent: notably the “channeled” Martian language of the Swiss medium Hélène Smith and the unrecorded imaginary language of Mary Baker in the nineteenth century, and in the twentieth the fictional... is prominently displayed at the bottom of folio 461v of Wiesbaden’s Riesencodex as a lemma for her fifty-ninth invented word—Ranzgia, either “tongue” or “language”—in a curious text referred to as the Lingua Ignota This book edits, translates, and contextualizes Hildegard s glossary of beautiful, unknown words for praise of Church and for expression of the things of her world It interrogates what she . authenticity of a text that in its pointlessness offers grounds for doubt . . . The meaning and purpose of such a mysterious glossary and the HILDEGARD OF BINGEN S UNKNOWN LANGUAGE 4 9781403976734ts02.qxd. focus she gives to her trees and herbs appears as well in her Physica; the list of jewelry and female adornment reflects her alleged practice of dressing her nuns on Feast Days in the garments of. to transdisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly