Tag: Hildegard von Bingen

• The Whirligig of Time

  Every once in a while, I come across something that seems at odds with the history I’ve learned. Admittedly I’m the product of an older, more gendered Zeitgeist, and in the intervening years, have struggled to accept what I might once have termed historical revisionism. Each epoch seems to want to believe its own version […]

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  December 4, 2019

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  Alison Beach, Anita Radini, Christina Warinner, Dalheim Germany, dental plaque, Hildegard von Bingen, historical revisionism, history, illustrators, lapis lazuli, Max Planck Institute, medieval manuscripts, Middle Ages, monks, nuns, Ohio State University, Sarah Zhang, scribes, Seven Liberal Arts, tartar, teeth, theatlantic.com, ultramarine pigment, University of York, Zeitgeist

• Sheep in Wolf Clothing

  I suppose it has always happened -there’s very little that’s really new around; I still wonder why it’s necessary, though. Even through the lens of my white male privilege –my through-a-glass-darkly upbringing- I continue to wonder about these things. Why, for example, do I even have a lens? Was it necessary simply because in the […]

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  September 27, 2017

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  BBC news, boundaries, challenges, chromosomal lottery, fairy tales, famous historical women, gender barriers, Hildegard von Bingen, history, Invictus, Jeremiad, Mererani, mining, need to be a man, Tanzania, tanzanite, walls, white male privilege, William Ernest Henley