The Hidden Scheme of the Virtues in Hildegard of Bingen's Ordo Virtutum
Roswitha Dabke
Hildegard of Bingen is considered to have selected the Virtues her 'Play Virtues' without recourse a traditional scheme. However, biblical allusions in their main scene align these with Gifts Holy Spirit and Beatitudes, framework. One Virtue, nameless through an erasure, completes scheme as exegetically derived Beatitude Virtue 'Heavenly Desire'. Hildegard's music poetic-dramatic language give distinct structure this trajectory virtuous Christian life and, unlike Carolingian twelfth-century authors, she accommodates both common unusual
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