The heavenly city of Hildegard von Bingen
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2014.44.1.15Keywords:
vision, dream, Holy Spirit, heavenly city, heavenly JerusalemAbstract
The article begins with an introduction to Hildegard’s visionary experience as understood in the twelfth century, that is, as a revelation and an inspiration of the Holy Spirit and therefore as an event that repeats the Pentecost event. It then considers the vision of the heavenly city in the saint’s prophetic work, specifically in Scivias and Liber Divinorum operum, and in her poetry and correspondence, comparing this view of the city with the vision of the heavenly Jerusalem as its role and meaning were understood in medieval culture. We conclude with an example of the view of the heavenly city in the twentieth century provided by the Red Book of Carl Gustav Jung. This last point aims to show the survival of the subject in modern culture, albeit expressed in very different contexts and languages.
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