Fides Quaerens Intellectum

While the right order requires that we should believe the deep things of the faith before we undertake
to discuss them by reason, it seems careless for us, once we are established in the faith, not to aim at
understanding what we believe.
-Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

48th International Congress on Medieval Studies: May 9-12, 2013

I am pleased to announce that I have received a portion of the 2013 James J. Paxson Memorial Travel Grant from the BABEL Working Group , to...

Thursday, April 18, 2013

An Act of Cowardice

An Open Letter to Every Senator who Voted Against Background Checks: I write to you with a heart aggrieved by your shameful decision thi...

Friday, April 05, 2013

O eterne Deus (Symphonia 7)

An Antiphon for God the Father by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Theophany of Caritas (Divine Love) Liber Divinorum Operum I.1 (Lucca MS...

Thursday, April 04, 2013

O magne Pater (Symphonia 6)

An Antiphon for God the Father by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias III.12: The New Heaven & New Earth. Rupertsberg MS, fol. 22...

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

O pastor animarum (Symphonia 4)

An Antiphon for the Redeemer by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias II.1: The Redeemer (detail). Rupertsberg MS, fol. 41v. O past...

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

O quam mirabilis (Symphonia 3)

An Antiphon for the Creator by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Humanity as Microcosm. Liber Divinorum Operum I.2 (Lucca MS 1942) O q...

Monday, April 01, 2013

O virtus Sapientie (Symphonia 2)

An Antiphon for Divine Wisdom by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias III.5: The Zeal or Jealousy of God. Rupertsberg MS, fol. 153r. ...

Sunday, March 31, 2013

O vis eternitatis (Symphonia 1)

For Easter, a Responsory for the Creator by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias II.1: Creation, Fall, & Redemption. Rupertsberg MS...

Friday, March 29, 2013

O cruor sanguinis (Symphonia 5)

A Good Friday Antiphon by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias II.6: Christ's Sacrifice and the Church. Rupertsberg MS, fol. 86r. ...

Monday, October 15, 2012

Doctor Ecclesiae: A Chronogram in Honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen. From the Rupertsberg Scivias, fol. 1r. o hILDegarDIs prophetIssa DoCtor eCCLesIae: Vera VIsIo XrIstI...

Monday, October 08, 2012

St. Hildegard of Bingen made Doctor of the Church: Coverage Round-Up

Here's a round-up of the various coverage--news, commentary, arts, and tributes--of Pope Benedict XVI's declaration St. Hildegard of...

Friday, October 05, 2012

Caritas, Humilitas, and Pax: Theophany of the Fountain in St. Hildegard of Bingen’s Liber Divinorum Operum III.3

Liber Divinorum Operum III.3: Theophany of Caritas, Humilitas, & Pax in the fountain. (From the Lucca MS) As we celebrate this w...

Monday, September 17, 2012

Doctor Viriditatis? St. Hildegard of Bingen’s Doctor of the Church Name

Hildegard of Bingen's portrait. Rupertsberg Scivias (facs.), fol. 1r. In commemoration of the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen, who...

Friday, May 11, 2012

The Pope and the Prophetess: Benedict XVI, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Reform of the Church (Part 2)

Liber Divinorum Operum III.5, from the Lucca MS. Update: A much expanded and revised version of this essay appeared in 2019 in the jo...

Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Pope and the Prophetess: Benedict XVI, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Reform of the Church (Part 1)

Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen. From the Rupertsberg Scivias, fol. 1r. Update: A much expanded and revised version of this essay app...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

In die cinerum: Ash Wednesday Remembrances

The following is a recollection of Ash Wednesday, 2006 (March 1), which I spent in a visit to the Abbey of St. Hildegard of Bingen , in Eibi...

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Vergil’s Messiah: The Pedagogical Use of Medieval Interpretations of Classical Texts

Vergil and the Sybil receive a vision of the Nativity of Christ. From a 14th-cen. chronicle. This week in the Humanities survey I am t...

Friday, December 16, 2011

Hildegard of Bingen to be named Doctor of the Church

Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen. Rupertsberg MS, fol. 1r. Update: On May 10, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI formalized Hildegard of Bingen...

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

The “Nostradamus” Effect: Prophecy and Its Discontents

Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination for Scivias III.5 in the Rupertsberg MS. The parched sands of the Middle East are dampened only by b...

Friday, October 28, 2011

Can Faith and Science Coexist?

"Galileo before the Holy Office" by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. Image from WikiMedia. Are the claims of modern science and...

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

This day is call’d the feast of Crispian

Image from WikiCommons. Today is indeed (or at least was, in the old calendar) [1] the feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian. Accordi...

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Verbum de Verbo: On Translation and its Act of Faith

Image from the Codex Sinaiticus . Why translate again a work so often done already? Is there anything new to be gained by publishing an...

Friday, October 14, 2011

Book Review: Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor

Norman F. Cantor. Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century . New York: M...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Curiosity in and out of the Classroom, Intellectual and Otherwise

James Lang has a penetrating article over at The Chronicle of Higher Education this week exploring contemporary student culture outside of ...

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Sunrise, Sunset

Though today is overcast and cool, yesterday was one of those perfect examples of autumn: a warm, partly-cloudy day that opened and closed c...

Monday, October 10, 2011

The Secrets of Medieval Cathedrals...

…aren’t really all that secret. But if you’re an overzealous editor at NOVA , you might be tempted to invoke “secretly encoded” informati...

Thursday, October 06, 2011

In novum statum: The Next Stage of Our Lives

With the slight embarrassment that I am so tardy in sharing this news, I am nevertheless pleased to announce that my wife, Heather, and I h...

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

In Principio Novo: This Blog Returns to Life

For several years now this blog has lain dormant. Originally conceived as a catch-all for what I fancied were my more important thoughts...

Sunday, August 09, 2009

In Memoriam

Gloria Byrd Ristow (May 15, 1938-August 1, 2009) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. —I Corinthians 15:26 My grandmoth...

Thursday, May 28, 2009

We’re Engaged!

I am very happy to announce that I and my girlfriend, Heather Eisler, are engaged. We were visiting my family in Colorado last weekend for ...

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About Me

Nathaniel M. Campbell: 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.

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