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Hildegarda de Bingen : physica e causae et curae
Cadernos de tradução, 2019; Series: Número Especial
Hildegard of Bingen was a Catholic nun of the Order of the Benedictines, born in 1098. She was a woman ahead of her time, due to her immense work that covers several areas of knowledge. She worked as a therapist, physician, spiritual counselor, prophetess, abbess, musical composer, among other occupations. As a physician or therapist, she developed a revolutionary method of disease treatment that understood illness as a result of an imbalance between body, mind, and spirit. Her healing treatments appear in her works Physica, “Physics” and Causae et Curae, “The Causes and the Cures”. In Physica, a work composed of nine books, she describes the elements of nature, such as plants, animals and stones, and gives some therapeutic uses of these elements. It is in Causae et Curae that Hildegard deepens the meanings and the influx of the things of nature, which are works of God, on the human being. Physica and Causae et Curae fit into what is now considered holistic medicine. This article intends to show the legacy that this medieval saint left us and to present extracts from the translation of these works, which are part of a bilingual and integral translation project. - [Abstract]
Language: Portuguese
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