A visit to the Abbey of St. Hildegard in Eibingen, Germany, on Ash Wednesday 2006 proved an important step in the intellectual journey that has brought me to where I am today, a medievalist and college instructor.
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Recent posts that you may find of interest:
Even though classicists now shudder at Christological interpretations of Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue, encouraging students to connect his veiled and prophetic language with Isaiah can be a useful exercise in getting them to “think medieval”.
Scholars and admirers of Hildegard of Bingen have for years dreamt that she might one day be declared a Doctor of the Church. But her bold tendencies, combined with the fact that she has never formally been canonized, have long made that dream seem distant and unattainable. Not, it would seem, anymore.
A profile of the afterlife of Nostradamus in Lapham’s Quarterly leads me to discuss the evolution of prophecy, from the self-conceptions of Hildegard of Bingen and Joachim of Fiore to the use (and misuse) of their prophecies in the later Middle Ages.
Why Creationism is both bad science and bad theology.
It is in our flowing cups remembered!
A meditation on the act of translation and its ontological reach into the Word whence springs all words.
Why story-telling encourages curiosity in classrooms where the latter is often lacking.
Autumnal light to start and end the day.
The perils of sensationalizing the “medieval” as Other.
As we move to southern Kentucky, I evaluate the scholarly vocation.
