The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen tr by Joseph L Baird & Radd K Ehrman v1 (1998).pdf

The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen

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The Letters of

Hildegard of Bingen

VOLUME I

Translated by

Joseph L. Baird

Radd K. Ehrman

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179.

[Correspondence. English]

The letters of Hildegard of Bingen / translated by

Joseph L. Baird, Radd K. Ehrman.

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-19-508937-5 (v. 1); ISBN 0-19-512117-1 (pbk.)

1. Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179—Correspondence. 2. Christian

saints—Germany—Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate)—Correspondence.

3. Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)—Biography. I. Baird,

Joseph L. II. Ehrman, Radd K. III. Title.

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