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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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Spiritui Sancto honor sit: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard

Human microcosm enmeshed by clouds. Liber Divinorum Operum 1.3 (detail from Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 28v ) spIrItVI sanCto honor sIt, qVI ...

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

New Article: “The prophetess and the pope: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Benedict XVI, and prophetic visions of church reform”

Nathaniel M. Campbell, “The prophetess and the pope: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Benedict XVI, and prophetic visions of church reform,” po...

Monday, October 29, 2018

Now Published: St. Hildegard of Bingen’s The Book of Divine Works

I am pleased to announce that my translation of The Book of Divine Works by St. Hildegard of Bingen is now available from The Catholic Un...

Monday, September 17, 2018

O vas speculativum: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard

St. Hildegard of Bingen recording her visions in the Liber Divinorum Operum (I.1), from Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 1 . o Vas speCVLatIVVM LV...

Friday, December 15, 2017

Article Published: The Authorship and Function of the Chapter Summaries to Hildegard of Bingen’s Liber diuinorum operum (JMLat 27)

Campbell, Nathaniel M. “The Authorship and Function of the Chapter Summaries to Hildegard of Bingen’s Liber diuinorum operum .” The Journal...

Sunday, September 17, 2017

O Sibylla vera Rhenensis: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen

St. Hildegard of Bingen recording her visions in the Liber Divinorum Operum (I.1), from Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 1. o sIbyLLa Vera rhenens...

Saturday, September 17, 2016

O vox nunc in caelo: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen

St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). Detail from painting by Cynthia Large. o VoX nVnC In CaeLo CantICa sonans sVperna, sVper qVae anIM...

Thursday, September 17, 2015

O vox praeclara: A Chronogram for the Feast of St. Hildegard of Bingen

St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Stained-glass window (restored), Rochuskapelle / Museum am Strom . o VoX praeCLara, VIDens In LVCe...

Monday, September 29, 2014

Hildegard of Bingen Studies and this Blog

St. Hildegard of Bingen recording her visions in the Liber Divinorum Operum (I.1), from Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 1. Over the last year or two...

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

O prophetissa teutonica: A Chronogram in Honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen

Portrait of St. Hildegard. Rupertsberg Scivias , fol. 1r (Protestificatio) o prophetIssa teVtonICa et DoCtrIX beata eCCLesIae, VIsI...

Monday, September 08, 2014

Quia ergo femina (Symphonia 12)

For the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, An Antiphon by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias III.3: Amor Caelestis. Ru...

Friday, August 22, 2014

Cum processit factura (Symphonia 13)

For the Octave of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, An Antiphon by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias I.2: The F...

Friday, August 15, 2014

O quam magnum miraculum (Symphonia 16)

For the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, An Antiphon by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Virgin Mary, Queen of Heavens...

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

O viriditas digiti Dei (Symphonia 42)

For the Octave of St. Disibod, a Responsory by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] St. Disibod Oil on canvas, 17th c. (From Colonial Art ) V...

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

O mirum admirandum (Symphonia 41)

For the Feast of St. Disibod, an Antiphon by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] “The Ruins of the Disibodenberg Monastery,” Lithograph, 1833. F...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

O vos felices radices (Symphonia 32)

For the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, A Responsory for Patriarchs and Prophets by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Sciv...

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

An Explanation of the Athanasian Creed

Explanatio Symboli Sancti Athanasii by St. Hildegard of Bingen This treatise can also be viewed and downloaded as a PDF here . Introducti...

Sunday, June 08, 2014

O ignis Spiritus Paracliti (Symphonia 28)

For Pentecost, a Sequence for the Holy Spirit by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Pentecost, from the Ingeborg Psalter, ca. 1195 (Web Gallery...

Sunday, May 04, 2014

Fundamentum Ecclesiae solum

“The Church’s One Foundation,” translated into Latin in the style of St. Hildegard of Bingen Scivias II.3: The Church & Christ. Rupe...

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Alleluia! O virga mediatrix (Symphonia 18)

For the Octave of Easter, an Alleluia-verse for the Virgin by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Initial F: Tree of Jesse Stammheim / Hildeshei...

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Nunc gaudeant materna (Symphonia 67)

For Easter, the Resurrection of the Lord, an Antiphon for the Church by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias II.3: Mother Church & ...

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Service and Sacrifice: A Friend and the Memorial of His Love

Bronze sculpture at Church Street UMC . You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the serv...

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

O virgo Ecclesia (Symphonia 66)

For Holy Week, an Antiphon for the Church by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias II.6: The Crucifixion. Rupertsberg MS , fol. 86rr. ...

Thursday, April 10, 2014

O spectabiles viri (Symphonia 31)

For the Feast of the Prophet Ezekiel, an Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias III.4: The Pillar...

Friday, April 04, 2014

O successores (Symphonia 40)

For the Feast of St. Isidore of Seville, an Antiphon for Confessors by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Initial D: Lion of Judah Stammheim /...

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

O tu illustrata (Symphonia 23)

For the Feast of the Annunciation, an Antiphon for the Virgin by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Chastity, from Scivias III.8: The Pillar o...

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

O vos imitatores (Symphonia 39)

For the Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great, a Responsory for Confessors by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias II.6: Eucharist. Ruper...

Friday, March 07, 2014

Vos flores rosarum (Symphonia 38)

For the Feast of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, a Responsory for Martyrs by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Agony in the Garden. Drawing from ...

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Cum erubuerint infelices (Symphonia 14)

For Ash Wednesday, an Antiphon for the Virgin by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias I.2: The Fall. Rupertsberg MS , fol. 4r. Cum ...

Sunday, February 23, 2014

O victoriosissimi triumphatores (Symphonia 37)

For the Feast of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop and Martyr, An Antiphon for Martyrs by St. Hildegard of Bingen [1] Scivias III.13: Symp...

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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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