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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.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Operatrix in vinea Domini: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard

Vineyards at the
Abbey of St. Hildegard,
Eibingen, Germany.
operatrIX In VInea DoMInI,
eXhortes nos
IgnaVa et obsCVra peCtora eXCItare
et VIrtVtIbVs CLarIbVs operare.

Worker in the vineyard of the Lord,
may you urge us
to stir up our sluggish and darkened hearts
and to act with virtues shining bright.