SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Opus Dei, God Speaks, Tropaeolum
9 Jan 2013
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Relevant to clairveau - continuity from last week. Music = she was a composer, there are a lot of nifty recordings of her music we have not seen what she does with music before. The rhetoric is intriguing, of humility, does not hold back blows, by time done writing she expects bernard to give her answer: you have authority higher than mine than go ahead and speak. Just like bernard (most compelling writer of 12th century) both beneficiaries of this renewed learning- intellectually on question of music hildegard is incredibly sophisticated- thus ignore her sayings of not knowing anything but as a. Christian you profess humility, and act that way as if you cast self down while raising self up . As young girl, community subject to male monastery, wanted to form community not subject to male monastery in which she is head (her aims) when second community formed, she is head.
