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Herrad of Landsberg (c - July ) was a 12th century Alsatiannun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She is known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).

Herrad of Landsberg was born about at the castle of Landsberg, the seat of a noble Alsatian family. She entered the Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains, about fifteen miles from Strasbourg, at an early age.

Herald of landsberg biography of abraham Herrad of Landsberg (Latin: Herrada Landsbergensis; c. – July 25, ) was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).

She became abbess there in and continued in that office until her death.

Hortus Deliciarum

As early as Herrad had begun within the cloister walls the work for which she is best known, the Hortus Deliciarum, a compendium of all the sciences studied at that time, including theology. In it, Herrad delves into the battle of Virtue and Vice with vivid visual imagery preceding the text.

The work, as one would expect from what we know of the literary activity of the twelfth century, while not highly original, shows a wide range of reading.

See full list on newworldencyclopedia.org Herrad of Landsberg, also Herrad of Hohenburg (c. - July 25, ), was a twelfth century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains of France.. She is known as the author and artist of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus Deliciarum (The Garden of Delights), a remarkable encyclopedic text used by abbesses, nuns, and lay women ali.

Its chief claim to distinction is the three hundred and thirty-six illustrations which adorn the text. Many of these are symbolical representations of theological, philosophical, and literary themes; some are historical, some represent scenes from the actual experience of the artist, and one is a collection of portraits of her sisters in religion.

The technique of some of them has been very much admired and in almost every instance they show an artistic imagination which is rare in Herrad's contemporaries. The poetry which accompanies the excerpts from the writers of antiquity and from pagan authors is not the least of Herrad's titles to fame.

It has the defects peculiar to the twelfth century, faults of quantity, words and constructions not sanctioned by classical usage, and peculiar turns of phrase which would hardly pass muster in a school of Latin poetry at the present time.

However, the sentiment is sincere, the lines are musical, and above all admirably adapted to the purpose for which they were intended, namely, the service of God by song. Herrad, indeed, tells us that she considers her community to be a congregation gathered together to serve God by singing the divine praises.

Herald of landsberg biography of abraham lincoln Not long after Hildegard Von Bingen invented the first constructed language and wrote the first extant description of the female orgasm, Herrad of Landsberg set out to document all human knowledge. Herrad of Landsberg was an Alsatian nun and the abbess of the Hotenburg Abbey on the border between France, Germany and Switzerland.

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