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This study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work Cause et cure and visionary work Scivias. Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively, seeing their porous nature as easily polluted. Women were considered weaker and more vulnerable to spiritual invasion. This volume shows how Hildegard's revolutionary understanding of the female reproductive body reversed these assumptions. She connected female bodily flows not to pollution but to purification, presenting menstruation and reproductive fluids as vital components in natural cleansing and healing processes. The book concludes with a chapter showing how Hildegard's concept of beneficial bodily flow remains relevant in modern Western and non-Western alternative medicine, in which female bodily porosity and fluid exchange continue to be understood as sources of regenerative power.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Female Porosity and Sacred Flow: From Eve and Mary to Hildegard of Bingen
Chapter 2. The Unsealer of Sin
Chapter 3. Releasing Blood and Humours
Chapter 4. Receiving the Spirit, Foam, and Fluids
Chapter 5. Giving Birth to a Baby and Giving Spiritual Birth to Humankind
Afterword. Alternative Medicine: From Old Knowledge to New Practice Through the Woman's Body
Bibliography
Index
