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Hildegard of Bingen & Elisabeth of Schonau, 1997.
Examines the lives and careers of these women, looking at religious & political influence of these 12th century female mystics.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, £ 56.95
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"The purpose of this paper is to examine several related topics concerned with women mystics of the Middle Ages, focusing especially on Hildegard of Bingen and Elisabeth of Sch?nau. One key issue is whether these women mystics were using their experiences as a way to claim authority and power that would otherwise have been denied to them during this era of European history.
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was many things: abbess, preacher, prophet, poet, composer, playwright, cosmologist. Long forgotten, her works have in recent decades been rediscovered and republished. Her music has been transcribed, performed, and recorded since about the early 1980s. Her mystical writings have been published in modern editions, and are regarded as being among the most important such writings ever produced in the Wester.."
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Hildegard of Bingen, 2003.
A discussion of women's place in 12th century Western society according to Hildegard of Bingen.
1,971 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 44.95
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According to 12th century theologist, Hildegard, women were humans, certainly, but they were a sad and inferior brand of human compared to man, and it was their sad lot in life to suffer the consequences of the "Original Sin." In this paper, a thorough discussion of the interpretive essay, "Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine," is made and presented, along with the author's interpretation of the research. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
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"Two concepts become abundantly clear after reading Hildegard's visions about natural philosophy and medicine: The first is that here we have one of the great women in history, a woman capable of organizing and capably administering a monastic complex for a large number of people, as well as orchestrating a means by which she could join the community of theologians who were permitted to write about what was important to them in the 12th century. The second concept is just how bad women had it in the Latin West during this period of history. The women's rights movement was not even a twinkle in anyone's eye yet, but Hildegard of Bingen managed to make a name for herself during a period in history in which the vast majority of women were consigned to dreary, short lives characterized by hard work, disease and hunger."
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Hildegard of Bingen, 2001.
Explores the spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and her role as a visionary.
1,273 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper presents a debate regarding the emphasis placed on Hildegard of Bingen's spirituality. The paper considers whether her spirituality was visual, theological, or both, and suggests that an understanding of Hildegard's spirituality can best be obtained from the perspective of the culture and society of the time in which she wrote. The paper also details her history, her visionary accounts, her art, and her early feminist work.
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"Interest in Hildegard of Bingen has increased in recent times and especially interest in her role as visionary. Although Hildegard?s spirituality was based on visions, it was the very fact that she believed these visions were of divine origin that allowed her to be led to God through them and thus achieve spiritual satisfaction. Therefore, Hildegard?s spirituality did not give any more emphasis to either the visual or theological, but rather accepted a combination of both as each was dependent on the other for completion. It is also important to remember that religious writers such as Hildegard were often affected by the contemporaneous issues which surrounded them and they sought to address these issues in their writing. Thus, for a comprehensive reading of Hildegard?s spirituality, visions and theology, her work must be viewed through the culture and society of the time in which she wrote."
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Hildegard von Bingen, 2007.
This paper analyzes the biography and musical innovations of Hildegard of Bingen.
2,532 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 53.95
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The paper analyzes the many differing musical innovations of the medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen. The paper discusses her biographical background as a woman in the Roman Catholic Church in relation to the spirituality of her music. The paper also looks at her status as a feminist innovator of her time. The paper shows how her spiritual music deviated from normative western religious music interpretations of medieval vocal chant.
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"Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1098 into a family of German nobles from the courts of Sponheim at Bermersheim. In most historical evaluations of her life it was known that she was the 10th daughter and was found to be sickly and weak at birth. However, her family quickly sent her to be educated at the Disibodenberg monastery after her apparent recovery from illness at a young age. At the monastery she was brought under the tutelage of Jutta, a famous nun that played a crucial role in her educational development within the Roman Catholic Church. In many ways, religious education at the nunnery directly resulted in her acquiring the musical lessons and spiritual inspiration to understand the complexities of composing music within the Church tradition. Yet there is a contradictory historical perspective that tells of von Bingen never actually being taught composition, but that it was an act of God that gave her the gift of music."
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Hildegard von Bingen, 2005.
An overview of the life and musical achievements of this twelfth-century Christian composer.
3,410 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 68.95
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Hildegard von Bingen, born in Bockelheim, Germany in 1098, made a significant impact on the twelfth century church through leadership and writing, and yet she is perhaps best known for the amazing works of music that she produced. This paper examines influences that helped to shape von Bingen into the figure that many refer to as St. Hildegard. Through examining important events, celestial visages and important influences, the paper shows how von Bingen was inspired to create some of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music that have emerged from Christianity throughout its two thousand year history.
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"von Bingen was deeply moved to create music because of her religious beliefs about what musical expression was. From von Bingen's perspective, music was one of the ways to most appropriately worship God. Before the fall of Adam, von Bingen surmised that Adam's voice was pure and would be lifted up in worship of God and would be joined by hosts of angels. After the fall, von Bingen concluded that musical instruments were invented to enable man to worship God in an appropriate manner. These influences were reflected in her music and helped to craft a musical style that was inspiring and moving. It is precisely the element of worship as a component of music that inspired her to write the lines of the Devil without music."
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Hildegard of Bingen, 2001.
The paper is an examination of the works and life accomplishments of an extrordinary Medieval Christian Abbess.
2,225 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 12 sources, £ 49.95
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The paper examines the works and life accomplishments of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). Hildegard was a notable medieval Christian Abbess and founder of the convent at Rupertsberg. The author discusses her contributions to philosophy, theology and science.
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"Many of the works of Hildegard stand as examples of primitive attempts to derive a rational explanation for the world in which she lived. She strove to provide a coherent philosophy of the material universe within the context of the Middle Ages. Her life was a time when matters of science, philosophy and theology were thought of as inexorably interdependent. Although her conclusions may appear grotesquely incorrect in comparison to modern standards, we must be careful not to underestimate her intellectual merits. There is great beauty and power to be found within her ecstatic mystical works, despite the absence of any modern scientific foundation."
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Hildegard Of Bingen, 1999.
Examines the life, career, visions and writings of this 12th Century Catholic mystic.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 39.95
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"Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most unusual people of the twelfth century. She was the first of the long tradition of female visionary mystics who constituted one of the most singular phenomena of the Middle Ages. And, at a time when women had almost no access to public life, Hildegard was famous for her writings, corresponded with the pope and many of the most important men in Europe, headed her own convent, traveled and preached orthodox Christianity against various heresies, and composed liturgical music. From a twentieth-century point of view Hildegard might seem like a distant predecessor of the fully enfranchised woman who is today's ideal. But in order to understand her life and works it is necessary to view them in the context of her own times. For, in spite of the unusual nature of her gifts of vision and prophecy, Hildegard was a staunch ..."
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Hildegard and Sex Complementarity, 2008.
A discussion of equality of the sexes in Sister Prudence Allen's article "Hildegard of Bingen".
1,920 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 43.95
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This paper takes a close look at Sister Prudence Allen's article on Hildegard of Bingen, entitled "Hildegard of Bingen" (1985). The paper maintains that the article's main point is that Hildegard was the very first person to articulate the theory of the complementarity of the sexes. The article claims that this complementarity theory was original to Hildegard; thus Hildegard made a significant contribution to the history of the concept of woman in relation to man. The paper agrees with the article, concluding that Hildegard did indeed succeed in vindicating the equality of woman with man by presenting a cogent, comprehensive and multifaceted argument for the complementarity of man and woman.
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"However, the important point is that Hildegard balanced this notion with a defence of the quality of woman and man, based on a metaphysical framework of sex complementarity in heaven and in the world. For example, in procreation, while man deposits the cold seed, it is woman's warmth that must grow the seed. Similarly, in heaven male saints are equal to but different from female saints; while on earth woman and man have equal access to both the private and public spheres of activity (Allen, 1985)."
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Eleanor of Aquitaine, 2004.
Discusses Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen and the roles of women in medieval society.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 27.95
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This paper discusses the inferior position assigned to women of medieval society no matter what their status. The paper discusses the lives of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen in light of this fact and looks at the restraints imposed upon women of that era.
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"Norman Cantor has noted that the lives of medieval women were as diverse as those of men and that women in this era contributed to all the major movements that spelled success for an emerging European civilization. Nevertheless, women in the Middle Ages were, regardless of their position, status or birth, regarded as legitimately inferior to men and, as of necessity, submissive to their fathers and husbands and brothers. Even in the case of Queen Eleanor of..."
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"Symphonia", 2002.
This paper discusses the verse poem "Symphonia" by Hildegard of Bingen, which focuses on four distinct yet united parts: God the Father, God the Son, the Virgin Mary and the Holy Ghost.
1,957 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper explains how divine motherhood, the virginity of Mary and her comparison to Eve evolve into the associations of growth, greenness and flowering as attributed to Mary, representing her reversal of Eve's disobedience and corruption in the poem "Symphonia" by Hildegard of Binge, The author points out that Hildegard uses the ideas of a tree, the building of a city and a mountain to portray the connection between God the divine and man the mortal being. The paper relates that Hildegard introduces many images and themes to represent her poetry through movements and ideas; the complexity of each poem forces careful analysis for the comprehension of the discrete messages she is trying to communicate.
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"Moral life as perceived through divine grace vs. human struggle is depicted in the building of a city. Man is left with the job of transforming his soul into something which is just and spiritually pure, a process that takes time and faith in God. Morality can only be achieved if one lets God into his life to help him develop a moral nature. To do this, there needs to be a reconstruction of the self or as Hildegard refers to it, the "building of a city," the remaking of one's beliefs and actions. One is to take the knowledge of right and wrong and apply it by not solely recognizing what one "ought" to do, but actually do it. The grace of God fills man in his struggle to reach this state so his actions reflect his ideals."
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Women Classical Composers, 1993.
A sociological study of Hildegard of Bingen, Clara Schumann and Madia Boulanger and their works in a male-dominated field.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 12 sources, £ 56.95
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" Women Classical Composers: A Sociological Perspective
Women composers throughout the centuries have written prolifically, but they have not been recognized as readily as their male counterparts. Ideally, there would be no need to separate the accomplishments of women from those of men. Judgments of merit should be based only on artistic ability. History shows that women have been composing since the third century, but inequities exist in society's recognition of their talent and creativity (LePage vii).
Women have been music makers for as long as men have, but their work, especially in composition, has gone unnoticed, unpublished, unperformed, and often forgotten. This unfortunate situation is due to the manner in which gender is construed, a process which has profoundly impacted women composers in Europe ..."
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Psychiatric Nurse Hildegard Peplau, 2006.
This paper discusses the life and contributions of Hildegard Peplau, awarded "Psychiatric Nurse of the Century".
1,690 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 7 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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This paper explains that Hildegard Peplau transcended her traditional role as a nurse to show her superiors---male doctors---what was needed and what was lacking in the field of psychiatric nursing. The author describes Peplau's evolutionary theory of interpersonal relations between the psychiatric nurse and her patient, which encouraged nurses to discover their own competencies in seeking out what was healthy in the psychiatric patient. The paper relates that she was devoted to psychiatric nursing education, served on training committees of the National Institute of Mental Health and contributed to the development of policies for funding through the advisory boards of other governmental agencies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Historical Background
Theory Development
Applications
Conclusion and Summary
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"Hildegard Peplau's career was grounded on a scholarly quest for knowledge and an overwhelming interest in the development of a theory upon which clinical actions could be undertaken. Her teaching was based on the acquisition of knowledge of established theory and the systematic development of theoretical concepts and processes from clinical observations, which could lead to the development of a nursing theory. She focused her specialty field on her pursuit of knowledge but was not limited to it. Her basic preoccupation was education."
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The Nursing Theory of Hildegard Peplau, 2006.
A review of Hildegard Peplau's theory of nursing.
1,596 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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According to this paper, Hildegard Peplau is a nursing theorist who developed a nursing theory with sensitivity to nurse and patient interaction. The paper discusses how Peplau's theory has often been applied to nursing theory associated with psychiatric nursing but can also be applied to nursing theory with regard to many aspects of the nursing process.
Outline:
Introduction
Peplau's Theory
Application of theory to Hospital Medical Surgery Nursing
Conclusion and Evaluation
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"Within the hospital setting of the practice of medical/surgical nursing practice Peplau's theories can be identified as very helpful in defining the psychosocial role of the nurse and patient in the roles they are prescribed during a hospital stay. During the orientation phase of the theory in medical surgical practice, the nurse and the individual assist one another in discerning the patient's problem and the needs that may arise because of it. During the identification process the nurse and the patient collectively identify with each other, in the roles they play in the given condition and the patient becomes comfortable enough to rely on the nurse to assist them in the needs they cannot meet independently, such as dressing site changes, vitals taking and activities of daily living like bathing and trips to the bathroom to aide the patient in recovery. "
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St. Elizabeth Of Schonau, 1992.
Examines the life, career and influence of this 12th Century German saint, focusing on her visions and visitations.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 7 sources, £ 61.95
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"This study will examine the life and influence of Saint Elizabeth of Schonau. The study will approach the life and influence of Elizabeth from the perspective of her impact as a woman in an institution, the Catholic Church, which was and remains a patriarchal system which minimizes the contributions and significance of women.
Elizabeth was born in Schonau, Germany, near Bonn, in 1129. Thurston and Attwater write that there has been some historical confusion in certain aspects of the lives of Elizabeth of Schonau and St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who was born and lived in the 13th century. Specifically, the confusion has attributed to Elizabeth of Hungary a number of visions which were in fact experienced by Elizabeth of Schonau. Beyond any doubt, Elizabeth of Hungary did live an exemplary life and was honored by the Church as a result ..."
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