Hildegard of Bingen's unknown language : an edition, translation, and discussion

Publication Data

• Title Hildegard of Bingen's unknown language : an edition, translation, and discussion
• Alternative Title Lingua ignota. English
• Author
• Contributor Sarah Lynn Higley
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Baskingstoke
• Language English

Contents

The Lingua ignota and its place within a history of language invention
Introduction: Hildegard's language as vineyard and edifice
An unknown language by a visionary woman
Glossolalia and glossographia
Medieval language philosophy
Fifteenth- to nineteenth-century language inventions
Play and aesthetic in contemporary language invention
Greening language : Hildegard's monastery garden
Manuscripts, edition, and translation of the Lingua ignota
Manuscript information
Notes to Manuscript information
The Riesencodex Lingua ignota with additions from the Berlin MS
Notes to the translation
Hildegard's Lingua alphabetized.

Topics

• Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179 :: Language :: Glossaries, etc.
• Latin language :: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• English language :: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
• Mysticism :: Dictionaries
• Spirituality :: Dictionaries

Hildegard of Bingen's unknown language : an edition, translation, and discussion. ISBN 9781403976734. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.