HERB - Hildegard of Bingen's Physica...

[Jenne Heise]

I'm trying to put together a class on period herb use in East and
CentralEurope. One source I've been considering using is Hildegard of
Bingen's Physica. The question is, of course, how widely this volume was
known and respected in the Middle ages. Hildegard comes off as bit of a
kook, but the material I've read indicates that she was considered a
prominent theologian for a while. Does anyone have any infomration on her
status as a respected medical author, or not?

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
 "in verbis et in herbis, et in lapidibus sunt virtutes"
(In words, and in plants, and in stones, there is power.)

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is credited to others."

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