St. Hildegard's Litteræ Ignotæ (2016)

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aversa/scholastic/Hildegard.html

by danielam • 6 years ago

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This was pre-Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church back when there were holy people, and interesting things like this. Glad to see this on HN

Ascetik• 6 years ago

Still holy people today. St. Hildegarde even made the prophecy that people during our time would long for their days based on the visions she had. I have read a good bit of her writings, they're utterly fascinating. St. Thomas Aquinas is my confirmation saint btw.

dang2• 6 years ago

Unfortunately a comment like this is likely to start an unholy argument about holy people.

Yetanfou• 6 years ago

Should intellectually curious people be afraid of arguments about, well, anything? It is in the confrontation between dissimilar thoughts that understanding can arise after all, those who just preach to the choir end up neither enlightening nor enlightened. If the argument turned into a pie-throwing contest it would make sense to curtail it. Before that time, not so much.

jhbadger• 6 years ago

I think this is misunderstanding the purpose of the Litterae Ignotae -- it wasn't just a substitution cipher for encrypting text for security reasons, but a writing system for an artificial language called the Lingua Ignota. It's not entirely clear what the purpose of this language was, but it may have had some mystical significance to herself and her followers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Ignota

userulluipeste• 6 years ago

An unrelated note (for the sake of intellectual curiosity): the author used the term "patroness" for a female in the role of patron, but that actually has its own word - "matron".

eschutte2• 6 years ago

Can you provide a source for that? I'm having trouble finding any support for the use of "matron" in the way you describe.

St. Hildegard's Litteræ Ignotæ (2016)

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