A Companion to Hildegard of Bingen

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with particular reference to the writings of Abelard, Heloise, Hildegard
of Bingen, and their contemporaries, including The Lost Love Letters of
Heloise and Abelard. Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France,
2nd ed. (2008).
Susanne Ruge specializes in the writings and music of Hildegard of
Bingen, especially in the Liber vite meritorum. Her main areas of interest
are history of monasticism; church music of the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, and the Baroque period; and communicating historical,
theological, and musical traditions to ordinary people, especially children.
A recent publication on the last theme is “Unterrichtseinheit zum
Buch Rut,” in Frauen und Männer in der Bibel. Impulse für biografijisches
Lernen im Religionsunterricht, eds. Roland Biewald and Bärbel Husmann,
Themenhefte Religion 7 (2009), 29–36. She works for the Lutheran Church
of Hannover, Germany.
Travis A. Stevens is a doctoral candidate in the History of Christianity at
Harvard Divinity School. In particular, he is interested in the relationships
between language and the body as expressed in the writings of medieval
Christian mystics. He has also written about rhetoric against heresy in the
sermons of Innocent III in his essay, “Innocent III et la rhétorique contre
l’hérésie,” in 1209–2009, Cathares, une histoire à pacifijier: Actes du colloque
international tenu à Mazamet, les 15, 16 et 17 mai 2009, eds. Jean-Claude
Hélas and Anne Brenon (2010).
Debra L. Stoudt is Professor of German and Associate Dean in the College
of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University. She has published on the lives and works of the
medieval German male and female mystics as well as the relationship
between magic and medicine in the Middle Ages.
Justin A. Stover is currently a Fellow at Oxford University, All Souls, and
was a College Fellow in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University,
where he received his Ph.D. in Medieval Latin in 2011. His dissertation,
“Reading Plato in the Twelfth Century: A Study of the Varieties of Plato’s
Reception in the Latin West Before 1215,” explored the reception of Plato
in the scholastic and monastic worlds of 12th-century Europe. His other
interests include intellectual history, medieval humanism, manuscript
studies, and the Classical tradition. He is currently working on a monograph
on prodigies and wonders from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity.