Medieval scholar, Yvonne Kendall, offered greater insight than the classroom text into the connection between Hildegard and her music. To say that music was important to Hildegard scarcely glosses the depths to which it affected her everyday life. As we know from her first letter to Bernard, she refers to the “sound” of God, meaning [...]
In Act I of “The Tempest,” William Shakespeare paints Prospero as a character who possesses a great deal of power, quite analogous to that of the King of England. Attributing this power to his education in “liberal arts,” Prospero’s enchanting abilities appear to stem from his study of books, the donning of a magical cloak, [...]
Hrotsvitha and Hildegard Deliver Women into Light
In Karen Christina Lang’s Essay, “Images of Women in Early Buddhism and Christian Gnosticism,” she explores myths on the fall of humanity from texts written in the 3rd Century B.C.E. These myths associate women’s fertility with the Earth’s abundance and, according to Lang, this correlation is what gives rise [...]
A reading response for Medieval Lit, Women and Spirituality:
Hildegard was a highly influential woman during the latter portion of her life. Initially she feared revealing her visions but, with encouragement, she began to record and share them. Hildegard’s interpretations of these visions read like prophecy, and were believed to have come from God. Her understanding [...]
A Summary of Paul Brown’s “‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism”
In his essay, Paul Brown explains that Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” reaches beyond mere contemplation of colonialism and more toward “intervention in an ambivalent and even contradictory discourse.” (205) Brown feels that Shakespeare attempts, in his narrative, to [...]
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