EXPLORING MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE H i d l e g a r d o ... · Liber Divinorum Operum, 12th c....

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Medieval✥MattersEXPLORING MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE TO UNDERSTAND THE MODERN WORLD

H i l d e g a r d o f B i n g e n Medieval Lessons for Modern Medicine

Victoria SweetAssociate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF

The author of God’s Hotel draws on her study of 12th-century Hildegard of Bingen to explore a premodern model of medicine and its value today for health and illness, curing, caring, and healing.

Liber Divinorum Operum, 12th c. Attributed to Hildegard of Bingen