Bibliography
In researching this book, I found following sources particularly helpful:
The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen ed. by Joseph Baird and Radd Ehrman
The Creative Spirit. Harmonious Living with Hildegard of Bingen by June Boyce-Tillman
Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages by Heinrich Fichtenau
Original Blessing. A Primer in Creation Spirituality by Matthew Fox
Planets, Stars, and Orbs. The Medieval Cosmos 1200-1687 by Edward Grant
The Holy Roman Empire by Friedrich Heer
The Ways of the Lord by Hildegard of Bingen (ed. Emilie Griffin)
Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen (ed. Elizabeth Ruth Obbart)
Hildegardis causae et curae ed. by Paulus Keiser
Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany by Martin Kitchen
Medieval Thought: St. Augustine to Ockham by Gordon Leff
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages by F. Donald Logan
Hildegard of Bingen. The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks
Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul B. Newman
Frederick Barbarossa by Marcel Pacaut
Natural History by Pliny the Elder (Book XXVI)
Life in Medieval Times by Marjorie Rowling
The Gracious God: Gratia in Augustine and the Twelfth Century by Aage Rydstrom-Poulsen.
The World of Hildegard of Bingen. Her Life, Times, and Visions by Heinrich Schipperges
“Hildegard of Bingen and the Greening of Medieval Medicine.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1999, 73:381–403 by Victoria Sweet
“Text and context in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum.” by Patricia Kazarow im Maps of Flesh and Light. The Religious Experience of Medieval Women Mystics ed. by Ulrike Wiethaus
Lyrics to Hildegard’s chants in Latin and English can be found at http://www.hildegard-society.org
For biblical quotations I used the New International Version translation.
Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to the Boston Public Library for finding – through the interlibrary loan program - the more academic texts they did not have in their system (particularly the three volumes of the Baird and Ehrmann translations). Public libraries are an invaluable resource for readers and writers alike, and well worth our support.
Many people contributed to helping me make this book the best it can be. They include my beta readers Elaine Buckley, Viksit Gaur, Bill Laforme, and John Shea to whom I owe a debt of gratitude for their insightful feedback. Enormous thank you to my editor Jessica Cale and cover designer Jenny Quinlan from Historical Editorial. Any errors that remain are mine.
I also want to give a shoutout to the ladies from the Fearless Female Writers group—Anne Marie Carmody, Deborah Coffey, Kim Jaso, Quenby Solberg, and Elise Tanimoto—who listened patiently; and to the small but tenacious group from the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union. The monthly dinners at Christopher’s help me unwind and keep things in perspective.
Finally, thank you to my family for cheering me on. Liam, you are a ray of sunshine.
About the Author
P.K. Adams is the pen name of Patrycja Podrazik. She is a historical fiction author based in Boston, Massachusetts. A lifelong lover of history and all things medieval, she is also a blogger and historical fiction reviewer at www.pkadams-author.com. She graduated from Columbia University where she first met Hildegard in a music history class. The Greenest Branch is her debut novel and the first in a two-book series about one of the medieval era’s most fascinating women.
