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I am a medievalist, a social studies teacher at Knox Central High School, and an adjunct instructor in history at Union Commonwealth University. My research includes medieval theologies of history, text/image relationships in visionary and mystical texts, and the writings of the twelfth-century Doctor of the Church, St. Hildegard of Bingen. I am also a translator of medieval Latin and German texts, especially as relate to my research. My translation of Hildegard's Book of Divine Works is available from Catholic University of America Press here. I completed a Master's in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2010, a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany in 2008, and a B.A. in Classics and German at Boston College in 2007.

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

O soror Sapientiae: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Wisdom
From the Stammheim Missal, fol. 11;
Getty Museum, Ms. 64 (97.MG.21))
o soror sapIentIae,
eLeCta et ereCta
Ita qVoD oMnes CreatVrae
per te ornatae sVnt:
nos VIrtVtIbVs fVLgentIbVs LargIter renoVarI
In VIsIonIbVs tVIs horterIs.

O wisdom’s sister,
chosen and upraised
so that all creation
has been graced by you:
in your visions you call on us
to be bountifully renewed with gleaming virtues.