A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Embach studied German and Catholic theology in Trier and
Freiburg. In 1986 he earned his doctorate at the University of Trier with
a dissertation entitled “Das Lutherbild Johann Gottfried Herders ( Johann
Gottfried Herder’s Image of Luther).” Four years later he completed his
Habilitation in Trier on Die Schriften Hildegards von Bingen. Studien zu
ihrer Überlieferung im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (The Works of
Hildegard of Bingen. Studies of their Transmission in the Middle Ages and in
the Early Modern Period). In 2006 he became Außerplanmäßiger Professor
in Trier. Since 2007 he has served as the director of the Trier Stadtbibliothek
and Stadtarchiv.
Margot E. Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and
Liturgy and Co-Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program at the
University of Notre Dame, is completing a book on Hildegard of Bingen,
and a textbook on medieval music for W. W. Norton. Her most recent
books are The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the
Arts (2010) and Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform
in Twelfth-Century Paris, 2nd ed. (2011).
Franz J. Felten served as Professor of Medieval History at the universities
of Dresden, Halle, and Mainz until 2011. He is particularly interested
in the institutional, normative, social, and political aspects of medieval
religious life, especially of women religious from the 7th to the 15th centuries,
as well as in the history of the Avignonese Papacy. Some of his most
signifijicant articles were republished recently in: Franz J. Felten, Vita religiosa
sanctimonialium. Norm und Praxis des weiblichen religiösen Lebens
vom 6. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert, aus Anlass des 65. Geburtstages von Franz J.
Felten, ed. Christine Kleinjung, Studien und Texte zur Geistes- und Sozialgeschichte
des Mittelalters, 4 (Korb: Didymos Verlag, 2011).
George Ferzoco, Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in the University
of Bristol’s Department of Religion and Theology, works primarily on
verbal and visual propaganda in the later Middle Ages. His publications
include: Il murale di Massa Marittima / The Massa Marittima Mural (2005);
Medieval Monastic Education, co-edited with Carolyn Muessig (2000); and