Barbara Newman is professor of English, religious studies, and classics at Northwestern University. She is the author of a number of books, including God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages and Frauenlob’s Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece.
17 Ebooks by Barbara Newman
Barbara Newman: Medieval Crossover
The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the …
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€39.99
Barbara Newman: Sister of Wisdom
Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and …
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€34.99
Barbara Newman: From Virile Woman to WomanChrist
Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as ‘apostles to the dead’ and end by challengin …
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€38.99
Barbara Newman: God and the Goddesses
Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom …
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€43.99
Making Love in the Twelfth Century
New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg Songs Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student …
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€38.99
Hildegard of Bingen: Symphonia
For this revised edition of Hildegard’s liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. A …
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€164.99
Hildegund Keul & Hyun Kyung Chung: Die Kirchenlehrerin Hildegard von Bingen
Anlässlich der Heiligsprechung und Erhebung Hildegards von Bingen zur Kirchenlehrerin, hat das Scivias-Institut für Kunst und Spiritualität e.V. im Oktober 2012 zu einer internationalen Tagung nach …
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€9.99
Barbara Newman: Medieval Crossover
The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the …
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English
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€45.06
Barbara Newman: Never Far from Dancing
A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Bar …
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€40.02
Barbara Newman: Never Far from Dancing
A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Bar …
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€40.09
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton & Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis: Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages
Wide-ranging examination of women’s achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.
Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also d …
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€33.99
Richard Methley: The Works of Richard Methley
Richard Methley (ca. 1450–1527/8), a Carthusian of Mount Grace, was the last great mystic before the English Reformation. Most of his prolific works are lost, but the treatises translated here displa …
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€30.99
Michael D. Bailey & Sean L. Field: Late Medieval Heresy: New Perspectives
Fresh investigations into heresy after 1300, demonstrating its continuing importance and influence.
From the Gregorian reforms to the Protestant Reformation, heresies and heretics helped shape th …
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€32.99
Barbara Newman: The Permeable Self
How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What sp …
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€32.99
Barbara Newman: Dreamcatcher Codes
FOUR GIRLS. FOUR DIRECTIONS. ONE PURPOSE.The earth is gasping for breath; its only hope is the sacred Codes of Nature. But they’ve been stolen-snatched by a giant raven during a raging storm.SOPHIA …
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€6.23
Barbara Newman: Voice of the Living Light
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to …
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€44.99
