Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline for Hildegard of Bingen's Life and Works -- The Region of Hildegard of Bingen -- Introduction -- What Do We Know About the Life of Jutta and Hildegard at Disibodenberg and Rupertsberg? -- St Disibod and the History of the Disibodenberg up to the Beginning of the 12th Century -- Hildegard of Bingen and the Hirsau reform in Germany 1080-1180 -- Unequal Twins: Visionary Attitude and Monastic Culture in Elisabeth of Schönau and Hildegard of Bingen -- Hildegard, the Schools, and their Critics -- Intertextuality in Hildegard's Works: Ezekiel and the Claim to Prophetic Authority -- Hearing the Heavenly Symphony: An Overview of Hildegard's Musical Oeuvre with Case Studies -- Hildegard as Musical Hagiographer: Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek Ms. 103 and Her Songs for Saints Disibod and Ursula -- The Theology of Repentance: Observations on the Liber vite meritorum -- The Medical, the Magical, and the Miraculous in the Healing Arts of Hildegard of Bingen -- Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): A History of Reception -- The Canonization and Doctorization of Hildegard of Bingen -- Notes on Hildegard's "Unknown" Language and Writing -- Bibliography -- Index.