Abstract
The twelfth-century saint, Hildegard of Bingen, was officially canonized by the Roman Catholic Church on October 7, 2012, and one can observe the tremendous surge of interest in Hildegard’s life and writings over the last few decades leading up to Hildegard’s canonization. During the course of the study, the author surveyed contemporary biographies about St. Hildegard and placed them in conversation with Hildegard’s own work. From this comparison one is able to observe discrepancies between Hildegard’s writings and the words of this saint’s modern biographers. This project takes special note of how Hildegard has been lifted from the pages of her own work and time and has been transfigured into a modern saint who now reflects the competing sensibilities of her modern biographers.
How to Cite
Gillette, B. S., (2013) “Editing Hildegard: The Creation of a Modern Saint”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 26(1).
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