Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen

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Summary: The Cosmic Christ in Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
Review: Both the quality illustrations and the text deeply affected me, introducing me to both the Cosmic Christ and to Hildegard's cosmology of the Universe.

It's a wonderful book to savor and to meditate upon.

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Summary: A gross mistreatment of a wonderful mystic, w/gd photos
Review: It is terrible shame that the best affordable set of reproductions of Hildegard's images is by Fox on Fox. His text is a series of misquotes which misrepresents his source throughout all his commentary, juxtaposing quotes to put words in Hildegard's mouth, often ones which would have enraged her. There is a costly but much better reproduction of the visions by A. Fuhrkotter published by Turnhout, Belgium in good library collections or for those who can afford it. I encourage anyone interested in Hildegard to go for the reputable scholars like Newman, Flanagan, Davies, and Hart just to name a few.

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Summary: Five Starts for the Pictures, Not the Text
Review: Since the much better work on Illuminations by Adelgondis Fuhrkotter is extremely hard to find, we are stuck with M. Fox's fluff. It is still worth getting for the pictures.