The King's Daughter : Hildegard of Bingen, a Medieval Romance

y The King's Daughter : Hildegard of Bingen, a Medieval Romance single work novel historical fiction

Author:agent Mary O'Connell

Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The King's Daughter : Hildegard of Bingen, a Medieval Romance

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'A luminous new novel based on the life of the mystic visionary, teacher, musician and healer Hildegard of Bingen and her medieval Rhineland world. Set in the spring of 1148, in a damp, obscure monastery in the Rhineland, a frail woman lies upon her sickbed, her book of divine visions incomplete. Travelling reluctantly towards the Abbey is the man, charged with the mission of saving the much desired work of revelations. His is a journey spiralling inwards to the place where the prophet lies, apparently silenced and crushed, but spiritually powerful still . . .'.

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Dedication: For the King, who inspired, and for Monica, who supported. This work could never have been created without your love.
Epigraph: This is the only place - La mysterique ... mystic language and discourse ...This is the place where consciousness is no longer master, where, to its extreme confusion, it sinks into a dark night that is also fire and flames .... This is the only place in the history of the West in which woman speaks and acts so publicly. What is more, it is for/by woman that man dares to enter the place, to descend into it, to comdescend to it, even if he gets burned in the attempt. Luce Irigaray. Speculum of the Other Woman, 1895.

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In Short : Fiction Graham Williams , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21-22 February 2004; (p. 13)
— Review of Drip Dry Ilsa Evans , 2004 single work novel ; The King's Daughter : Hildegard of Bingen, a Medieval Romance Mary O'Connell , 2003 single work novel