HISTORY 211
The Medieval Renaissance
1/24/07
Terms
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Hildegard of Bingen (+1179)
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Her mysticism was effort to reassert the importance of Benedictine
worship
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Founded monastery at Bingen where she got fame and power from her
mysticism
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Claustration
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Forbidding cloistered nuns from ever leaving the nunnery
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Scivias
(1150)
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“Know the Ways”
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Hildegard of Bingen’s book wherein she describes and explains her direct
and unmediated encounters with God
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Mysticism
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Mysticism is attempt of individual to be filled with divinity without taking
communion, going to confession, etc.
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Beguines
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Almost never aristocrats, usually ordinary urban widows
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Don’t take vows, own property; informal community supporting
themselves through labor (esp. weaving)
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Romanesque
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12
th
century
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Rounded arches, rounded vaults
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Decorations appear to be organic growths out of architecture
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Groin Vault
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Barrel vault cut at 45-degree angle
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Designed for acoustics
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Basilica
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- Winter '07
- Squatriti
- History, Middle Ages, renaissance, Bingen
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