Hildegard of Bingen by Fiona Maddocks

Author:Fiona Maddocks [Fiona Maddocks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571302598
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Throop P. (tr.) Hildegard von Bingen’s Physica (Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont, 1998).

2. Throop, op. cit., Book VI.

3. Ibid., Book VII, p. 205.

4. Ibid., Book VII.

5. Ibid., Introduction to Book VIII.

6. Strehlow and Hertzka, Hildegard of Bingen’s Medicine (Bear and Co., Santa Fe, 1998).

7. As cited by Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science (Macmillan, London, 1923), Vol. II, p. 133.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

ON SEXUALITY

And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth. Upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life …

To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

(GENESIS 3:13–16)

A woman conceives a child not by herself but through a man, as the ground is ploughed not by itself but by a farmer.

(SCIVIAS, II, VI)

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.