A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen
Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stoudt & George Ferzoco, "A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen". BRILL, Leiden - Boston, 2014.
Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Debra L. Stoudt & George Ferzoco, "A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen". BRILL, Leiden - Boston, 2014.
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256 debra l. s<strong>to</strong>udt<br />
are useful in identifying elements unique <strong>to</strong> <strong>Hildegard</strong> as well as in understanding<br />
the traditional medical lore <strong>of</strong> the Middle Ages.33<br />
The question <strong>of</strong> authorship remains a thorny issue: Charles Singer’s<br />
designation <strong>of</strong> the works as spurious has been superseded by a cautious<br />
acceptance <strong>of</strong> the Physica and the Cause et cure as part <strong>of</strong> <strong>Hildegard</strong>’s corpus,<br />
with general agreement that they are based on a text prepared by the<br />
magistra.34 Hildebrandt suggests that the original by <strong>Hildegard</strong> consisted <strong>of</strong><br />
two columns <strong>of</strong> text: the foundational text (Grundtext) and the additional<br />
text (Zusatztext); he identifijies the former as the Liber simplicis medicinae<br />
and the latter as the Liber compositae medicinae.35 Recent scholarship has<br />
demonstrated that the extant manuscripts <strong>of</strong> the Physica and the Cause<br />
33 Among discussions <strong>of</strong> sources are Laurence Moulinier, Le manuscript perdu à Strasbourg.<br />
Enquête sur l’oeuvre scientifijique de <strong>Hildegard</strong>e (Paris, 1995), pp. 205–43; Reiner Hildebrandt,<br />
“Summarium Heinrici, das Lehrbuch der <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>,” in Stand und<br />
Aufgaben der deutschen Dialektlexikographie, II. Brüder-Grimm-Symposion zur His<strong>to</strong>rischen<br />
Wortforschung. Beiträge zu der Marburger Tagung vom Ok<strong>to</strong>ber 1992, eds. Ernst Bremer and<br />
Reiner Hildebrandt (Berlin, 1996), pp. 89–110; Laurence Moulinier, “Ein Präzedenzfall der<br />
Kompendien-Literatur: Die Quellen der natur- und heilkundlichen Schriften <strong>Hildegard</strong>s<br />
von <strong>Bingen</strong>,” in <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>. Prophetin durch die Zeiten, pp. 431–47; and Peter<br />
Riethe, “Zur Quellengeschichte des ‘Steinkatalogs’ der <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>: Die Abhängigkeit<br />
des IV. Buches der Brüsseler Handschrift von Bartholomaeus Anglicus,” Scrip<strong>to</strong>rium<br />
64 (2010): 95–108. Notable reception studies include Melitta Weiss-Amer [Weiss Adamson],<br />
“Die ‘Physica’ <strong>Hildegard</strong>s von <strong>Bingen</strong> als Quelle für das ‘Kochbuch Meister Eberhards,’”<br />
Sudh<strong>of</strong>ffs Archiv 76 (1992): 87–96; Barbara Fehringer, Das ‘Speyerer Kräuterbuch’ mit den<br />
Heilpflanzen <strong>Hildegard</strong>s von <strong>Bingen</strong>. Eine Studie zur mittelhochdeutschen ‘Physica’-Rezeption<br />
mit kritischer Ausgabe des Textes (Würzburg, 1994); Melitta Weiss Adamson, “A Reevaluation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Saint <strong>Hildegard</strong>’s Physica in Light <strong>of</strong> the Latest Manuscript Finds,” in Manuscript Sources<br />
<strong>of</strong> Medieval Medicine. A Book <strong>of</strong> Essays, ed. Margaret R. Schleissner, Garland Medieval Casebooks<br />
8 (New York, 1995), pp. 55–80. Of note as well are several comparative studies: Annette<br />
Müller, Krankheitsbilder im Liber de plantis der <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong> (1098–1179) und im<br />
Speyerer Kräuterbuch (1456): Ein Beitrag zur medizinisch-pharmazeutischen Terminologie<br />
im Mittelalter (Hürtgenwald, 1997); and Christine Mayer-Nicolai, Arzneipflanzenindikationen<br />
gestern und heute: <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>, Leonhart Fuchs und Hagers Handbuch im<br />
Vergleich (Baden-Baden, 2010).<br />
34 Charles Singer, “The Scientifijic Views and Visions <strong>of</strong> Saint <strong>Hildegard</strong> (1098–1180),”<br />
Studies in the His<strong>to</strong>ry and Method <strong>of</strong> Science (Oxford, 1917), especially pp. 12–15. Supplementing<br />
the discussion by Marianna Schrader and Adelgundis Führkötter, Die Echtheit des<br />
Schrifttums der heiligen <strong>Hildegard</strong> von <strong>Bingen</strong>: quellenkritische Untersuchungen (Cologne,<br />
1956), pp. 54–59, are those <strong>of</strong> Vic<strong>to</strong>ria Sweet, Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: <strong>Hildegard</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Bingen</strong> and Premodern Medicine. Studies in Medieval His<strong>to</strong>ry and Culture (New<br />
York, 2006), pp. 36–49; Michael Embach, Die Schriften <strong>Hildegard</strong>s von <strong>Bingen</strong>. Studien zu<br />
ihrer Überlieferung und Rezeption im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit (Berlin, 2003),<br />
pp. 287–99; and Laurence Moulinier, in the introduction <strong>to</strong> her critical edition, Cause,<br />
pp. XXX–LXII.<br />
35 Physica, pp. 5–10. In the introduction <strong>to</strong> her edition <strong>of</strong> the Physica, Müller also discusses<br />
the Zusatztexte, pp. XIX–XXIV.