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Long, long before the Information Age ended, young Hildegard of Bingen finds beauty in the moral and spiritual ruins of her medieval world. In her forty-third year, she inscribes her cosmic visions into Scivias, an indescribably beautiful codex of writing and illuminations thought to be destroyed during the evacuation of Earth.In a sea cave with cracked amethyst walls on Avaaz, Pinky Agarwalia discovers fragments of this visionary text containing hitherto unknown pathways to a lost vision of human co-existence with plants and non-humans - and the seeds of its rebirth on Avaaz.Bursting with mythic quantum energy, Hildegard's vital linguistic potion viriditas, threaded throughout her communiques, is a lush, verdant, renewable life-force. Her ecological message may be just the magic needed for rebirth on Avaaz.Hildegard's mystic toolkit for the future includes a cosmology, medicine, a morphology of crystals, recipes - and the symbols of a new language.

Visions --- Words, New --- Hildegard, - Saint, - 1098-1179

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Domestic devotion has become an increasingly important area of research in recent years, with the publication of a number of significant studies on the early modern period in particular. This Special Issue aims to build on these works and to expand their range, both geographically and chronologically. This collection focuses on lived religion and the devotional practices found in the domestic settings of late medieval and early modern Europe. More particularly, it investigates the degree to which the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm intersected with the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings. Its broad geographical range (spanning northern, southern, central and eastern Europe) includes practices related to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This Special Issue will be of interest to historians, art historians, medievalists, early modernists, historians of religion, anthropologists and theologians, as well as those interested in the history of material religious culture. It also offers important insights into research areas such as gender studies, histories of the emotions and histories of the senses.

revelations --- Julian of Norwich --- rosary beads --- neuroarthistory --- neuromedievalism --- Piet --- psychohistory --- ekphrasis --- sleep paralysis --- visions --- mysticism --- books of hours --- psalters --- devotional image

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Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women's Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader's spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics' biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works--what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word's capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Christian spirituality --- Christian church history --- Visions --- Hagiographie médiévale --- Saintes femmes --- Literature, Medieval --- Autobiography --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism --- Technique

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In the last decades, historians and art historians have created an active historiographical debate about one of the most fascinating and studied iconographic themes of the Middle Ages: the royal divine coronation. Indeed, in the specific case of some Ottonian and Salian illuminations, it has been proposed that their function was not only political or to legitimize power, as traditionally suggested (Herrscherbilder), but also liturgical and religious (Memorialbilder). This has led to a complete rethinking of the meaning of this iconographic theme: the divine coronation of the king would not symbolically allude to his earthly power but to the wholly devotional hope of receiving the crown of eternal life in the afterlife. If this academic debate has been concentrated, above all, on Ottonian and Salian royal images, this Special Issue of Arts would like to deal with this topic by stimulating the analysis of royal divine coronation and blessing scenes in religious and liturgical context (mosaics, frescos, or paintings placed in cathedrals or monastic churches and illuminations of liturgical texts) with a wider geographical and temporal setting; that is, the European and Mediterranean kingdoms in the period from the 12th to the 15th centuries.

The arts --- History of art / art & design styles --- royal divine coronation --- royal iconography --- royal sacrality --- power-religion relationship --- medieval kingship --- angelology --- angels --- Angelus Domini --- angelic coronation --- St Stephen I of Hungary --- St Ladislaus I of Hungary --- Matthias Corvinus --- Chronici Hungarici compositio saeculi XIV --- Hartvik Legend --- Luigi Lippomano --- apocalyptic visions --- prophetism --- messianism --- Crown of Aragon --- Germanias revolt --- coronation --- laicization --- sacralization --- rex et sacerdos --- iconography --- Portuguese kings --- tomb sculpture --- statues --- regaliae --- cathedral --- Abbey of Saint-Denis --- festival crowing --- Abbot Suger (1122–1151) --- consecration --- royal divine coronation --- royal iconography --- royal sacrality --- power-religion relationship --- medieval kingship --- angelology --- angels --- Angelus Domini --- angelic coronation --- St Stephen I of Hungary --- St Ladislaus I of Hungary --- Matthias Corvinus --- Chronici Hungarici compositio saeculi XIV --- Hartvik Legend --- Luigi Lippomano --- apocalyptic visions --- prophetism --- messianism --- Crown of Aragon --- Germanias revolt --- coronation --- laicization --- sacralization --- rex et sacerdos --- iconography --- Portuguese kings --- tomb sculpture --- statues --- regaliae --- cathedral --- Abbey of Saint-Denis --- festival crowing --- Abbot Suger (1122–1151) --- consecration

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In Keeping autonomous driving alive, Göde Both studies the relationships between researchers and artefacts held together by contested visions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pioneering research project in Germany, he argues we can make sense of technological visions only if we simultaneously grasp the role of care, gender, and narrative in sustaining technological

Automated vehicles. --- Automated motor vehicles --- Autonomous vehicles --- Driver-free cars --- Driverless cars --- Robot cars (Automated vehicles) --- Self-driving cars --- Motor vehicles --- Autonomes Fahren --- autonomous driving --- driverless car --- Fahrerloses Auto --- gender studies --- Geschlechterforschung --- masculinity --- Männlichkeit --- robotics --- Robotik --- science & technology studies --- science communication --- Selbststeuernde Autos --- self-driving car --- Technische Visionen --- technological visions --- Video Demonstrationen --- video demonstrations --- Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung --- Wissenschaftskommunikation --- Technological innovations. --- Masculinity. --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Männlichkeit