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Title: Glimpses of Hildegard under a heavy overlay of Fox.
Review: This book claims to be "Text by Hildegard of Bingen with commentary by Mathew Fox." In fact, it is nearly all Fox with only occasional brief quotes from Hildegard. Confusingly, Fox uses "illuminations" to mean what Hildegard and everyone else calls "visions" rather than the pictures in manuscripts which are properly called "illuminations." This book contains, however, twenty-five reproductions of these pictures. To judge from other reproductions of the same pictures, the quality of the reproduction seems mediocre. Here you can learn only what Matherw Fox, a Domican, thinks about these visions. To find out what Hildegard said about them visions -- which is far fresher and more stunning that what Fox has to say -- one will have to look elsewhere. As an introduction to Hildegard, I would suggest "Hildegard of Bingen, A Visionary Life" and "Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen," both by Sabina Flanagan.
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