Article: The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century

The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century. By Fiona J. Griffiths. [The Middle Ages Series.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. Pp. viii, 381. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-81223960-7.)

By compiling the Hortus deliciarum, Herrad of Landsberg, abbess of the Augustinian community of Hohenbourg (Ste. Odile) in Alsace in the latetwelfth century, created one of the most complex medieval teaching books a work that provided instruction on faith, theology, biblical history, ecclesiastical matters, canon law, and nature through words, images, and music.Today, the illuminated and glossed manuscript that was destroyed by fire in 1870 can be reconstructed ...

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