My mini St. Hildegard collection. This will be accompanying me during the latest step in my cancer journey.
Suet624 Hildegard. 💕💕💕 9mo
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My mini St. Hildegard collection. This will be accompanying me during the latest step in my cancer journey.
Thrifty find on my TBR today! Sushi lunch with husband, book browsing & yarn squishing made for a lovely afternoon. 😄
It‘s so dark in the pic because we‘re under a blizzard warning. 🙄 I‘m ready for a change in season already.
Fascinating article on the rescuing of Hildegard‘s work.
https://lithub.com/the-brave-women-who-saved-the-collected-texts-of-hildegard-of...
pickI don't normally read fiction based on real people and books that take place in the 12th century are not usually my thing either, but I really liked this novel. It's well written and so interesting. To read at the end that most of it is based in fact is fascinating. This book makes me want to read more books about nuns.
pickAt 8 years old and for 30+ years Hildegard, a prophetess, was bricked up into 2 narrow cells with another girl to serve as “anchorites” to a monastery. This book is a fictional account of her true story—of how she managed to gain her freedom and start her own nunnery in #Germany with the patronage of the pope and an archbishop in the 1100s. There is so much to recommend this book—a celebration of women when they had no rights. But if religion ⬇️
I‘m very excited about focusing on #Germany for #foodandlit this month with its magnificent food (bratwurst tonight), and here are some of the books I may try to read. I‘m starting with the tagged book. Other than my being a 1/4 Swiss, I‘m a lot of German thanks to a large number of my ancestors immigrating from there. And my daughter is a huge fan of Bayern Munich. ⚽️ Welcome December!!
Get thee to a nunnery!
Leah‘s post yesterday inspired me to assemble all of my books featuring nuns. If a book has a nun in it, I want to read it! Some of these I‘ve read and loved (like tagged) and some are still TBR. And there are others I hope to acquire soon such as Frost in May by Antonia White, Land of Spices by Kate O‘Brien and Revelations by Mary Sharratt.
Tagging some of my fellow known #NunLit lovers.
I just spent the $1.99 for the ebook, on sale today, on a whim. Fictionalized story about a real woman, based on contemporaneous writings during her life. It looks really good.
This book will work for #Germany in December for #foodandlit
pick#sophiesworld
In Sophie‘s World, Hildegard von Bingen is discussed by Albert & Sophie.Consequently, my interest piqued, I read the tagged book & am starting the other by Fox. The novelized version of Hildegard‘s life was built on recorded facts of her life and works.Insightful and well researched, this novel brought this incredible woman to life.Loved this novel.🤍❤️💜
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