Las Figuras Femeninas de la Sabiduría y la Justicia en la Obra De Hildegard de Bingen (1098-1179)

Abstract

In this presentation I want to refer to the presence of two female figures who have an important role
in the work of Hilegard.de Bingen as we can know it thanks to the writings of two monastic authors
who worked with his writings: his hagiographer Theoderich of Echternach and the Abbot Gebeno of Eberbach,
a compiler of his prophetic and apocalyptic work. In this context, I will refer to the presence of the figures Sapientia, Wisdom, and the second is Justice,
who does not have such an important presence as the first, but who has a particularly interesting voice
and role in the apocalyptic thinking of Hildegard. Hildegard, magistra of a convent in Bingen, on the banks of the Rhine during the twelfth century,
was read by her contemporaries as a visionary and a prophet, as an interpreter of scriptures and events
in the sphere of the Church as an institution; on the other hand, the interpretation of his work towards
the end of the Middle Ages and in early modernity differs to a great extent from the more contemporary
reception phenomena: more recently. Hildegard has been "read" from philology, the history of music,
literature and philosophy, but also, from her medical writings, she has been studied and "recreated"
from ecology, alternative medicine and feminism. Her visions and prophecies, on the other hand,
have appeared marginally in the tradition of Sophia the Wisdom studies, which had a long and important
history until at least the first half of the 20th century.