List of 999 women of the Heritage Floor / Hildegard von Bingen

This list describes the place setting for Hildegard von Bingen on the table of the art installation The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago . It is part of the list of 999 women on the Heritage Floor who are assigned to the respective place settings on the table. The names of the 999 women are on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which is arranged below the table and belongs to the art installation.

description

The installation consists of a three-sided table, each with 13 historical or mythological personalities, thus a total of 39 people, from prehistory to the women's rights movement . These people were assigned a place setting at the table, consisting of an individually designed table runner, an individually designed plate, a goblet, knife, fork, spoon and serviette. The first page of the table is devoted to prehistory up to the Roman Empire , the second to Christianization up to the Reformation and the third from the American Revolution to the women's movement. Each place setting on the table is assigned additional personalities who have received an entry on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which occupies the space under the table and the center of the space between the sides of the table. This list includes the personalities who are assigned to Hildegard von Bingen's place setting. Your seat is on the second side of the table.

Hints

In addition to the names as they are used in German transcription or in scientific usage, the list shows the spelling chosen by Judy Chicago on the tiles.

The information on women who do not yet have an article in the German-language Wikipedia is referenced by the individual references listed under comments . If individual information in the table is not referenced via the main article, additional individual references are given at the relevant point. If there are any discrepancies between the information provided in Wikipedia articles and the descriptions of the work of art on the Brooklyn Museum website , this will also be indicated under Comments.

Place setting for Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen receives a divine inspiration and passes it on to her writer.

Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1098. She was a Benedictine , abbess , poet , composer and an important polymath . It is regarded as the first representative of the German mysticism of the Middle Ages and their works deal among others with religion , medicine , music , ethics and cosmology . Hildegard von Bingen was in lively correspondence with many personalities of her time and was a respected advisor. Their extensive correspondence has survived to this day, they also contain admonitions to high-ranking personalities as well as reports on their pastoral work and their public preaching work. She is considereda saint in the Roman Catholic Church and since October 7, after Pope Benedict XVI. she raised as a doctor of the church . She is alsohonored with memorial daysin the Anglican , the Old Catholic and the Protestant Churches . She died on September 17, 1179 in Rupertsberg Monastery near Bingen am Rhein , her relics are in the parish church of Eibingen .

The place setting for Hildegard von Bingen on the dinner party table is based on the structure of a Gothic cathedral. The butterfly shape that adorns your plate is painted like a stained glass window in a cathedral. The painting changes depending on the perspective on the plate and the shimmering colors play with light and shadow. The table runner takes up the Gothic elements, the dominant structure on the runner are Gothic arches that served as a support for every cathedral. The plate is placed in the center of an arch and looks like a rose window in a cathedral. The arches are embroidered using the technique of Opus Anglicanum , a figurative, English-influenced embroidery style, which was also used on church robes and was an expensive embroidery due to the delicacy of the stitch and the attached gold thread. Through her contact with bishops and kings Hildegard came into contact with this form of embroidery, which can be found on their robes. In the foundation of the arches on the table runner, two more stained glass windows are embroidered to the right and left of your name. The topic is also recorded in the initial letter "H" on the front of the runner. It is also adorned with structures reminiscent of stained glass windows. The back is adorned with a vision of Hildegard. Chicago took up Hildegardi's vision of space for this. It is deep blue in the center with interspersed stars and faces that breathe life into the universe. Outside there is a ring of abstract flames in burgundy and dark orange. The outermost part is raised gold embroidery, done in the technique of Opus Anglicanum.

Surname	Spelling on the tile	Date of birth	cultural spatial assignment	Remarks	image
Agnes d'Harcourt	Agnes D'Harcourt	13th century	Kingdom of France	Abbess of Longchamp Abbey , biographer of Isabelle of France .
Agnes of Bohemia	Agnes	1211	Bohemia , Prague	Monastery founder and Bohemian princess. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church . From 1235 to 1237 she was abbess of the Agnes Monastery in Prague's old town .
Alpais	Alpis de Cudot	1155 or 1157	Holy Roman Empire , Burgundy	After her healing from leprosy , she lived as a hermit and inclusive .
Anna of Bohemia	Anna	around 1201	Duchy of Silesia	From 1241 until her eldest son Boleslaw II came of age , Anna of Bohemia took over the reign of the Duchy of Silesia. She founded the Grüssau monastery .
Berenguela of Castile	Berengaria	1180	Kingdom of Castile	Queen of Castile , Queen of León, patron of religious institutions, responsible for the reunification of Castile and León under the authority of her son. She supported his efforts in the Reconquista .
Birgitta of Sweden	Birgitta	1303	Sweden	Wife of the noble Ulf Gudmarsson, court master at the court of Magnus Eriksson , tutor of his wife Blanca von Namur , mystic and founder of the Order of the Savior , venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .
Douceline by Digne	Douceline	around 1214	Kingdom of France , Vice-County of Marseille	Christian mystic venerated as a saint . Founder of a beguinage community .
Elisabeth von Schönau	Elizabeth of Schonau	1129	Schoenau Monastery	Benedictine. She is venerated as a saint.
Elisabeth of Thuringia	Elizabeth	1207	Thuringia	Saints of the Catholic Church . The saint is also venerated in Protestantism as a symbol of active charity .
Finola O'Donnell	Finola O'Donnel	15th century	Ireland	A 15th century Irish noblewoman, co-founder of the Franciscan Monastery in Donegal .
Gertrud von Hackeborn	Gertrude of Hackeborn	1232	Lutherstadt Eisleben	Cistercian and from 1251 until her death abbess of the Helfta monastery .
Gertrud von Helfta	Gertrude the Great	1256	Lutherstadt Eisleben	Cistercian and mystic in the Helfta monastery near Eisleben .
Hedwig von Andechs	Hedwig	1174	Duchy of Silesia	Duchess of Silesia . She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .
Heloisa	Heloise	around 1095	Champagne county	Wife of the philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard and abbess of the women's convent Le Paraclet, founded according to Cistercian and Fontevraulden models .
Herrad von Landsberg	Herrad of Landsberg	1125	Alsace	Abbess and writer of the High Middle Ages .
Isabelle de France	Isabel of France	1224	Kingdom of France	In 1255 she founded the Longchamp Humilité-Notre-Dame Poor Clare Abbey in the Rouvray forest (today: Bois de Boulogne ) west of Paris and, together with Clare of Assisi, was one of the first to draft a rule of the order .
Juliana of Norwich	Juliana of Norwich	around 1342	England	Mystic , probably a recruiter to St Julian's Church in Norwich . In 1373 she experienced 16 mystical openings about the life of Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity during a serious illness .
Jutta from Huy	Yvette	1158	Liege Province	Benefactress, Christian mystic and Roman Catholic blessed who worked in the province of Liège .
Jutta von Sponheim	Jutta	1092	County of Sponheim	Reklusin and Head ( magistra ) a Benedictine woman cell on the Disibodenberg .
Catherine of Siena	Catherine of Siena	1347	Siena	Philosopher and theologian. She also worked on the papacy of Gregory XI. to return to Rome from his expulsion in France and to restore peace between the Italian city-states . Since June 18, 1939, she has been one of the two patron saints of Italy together with Francis of Assisi. On October 3, 1970 she was by Pope Paul VI. appointed Doctor of the Church.
Clare of Assisi	Clare of Assisi	1193 or 1194	Assisi	Founder of the contemplative order of the Poor Clares .
Kunigunde of Luxembourg	Cunegund	around 980	Holy Roman Empire , Luxembourg	Wife of Emperor Heinrich II. After his death, she also ran the affairs of state of the East Franconian-German Empire for a short time . Like her husband, she is one of the saints of the Catholic Church and is especially venerated in Bamberg .
Las Huelgas	Las Huelgas	N / A	Spain	Cistercian women who live in the Cistercian abbey 1.5 kilometers west of the city of Burgos on the Avenida del Monasterio de las Huelgas .
Loretta de Briouze	Loretta	around 1185	England	Countess of Leicester , noblewoman and hermit .
Magistra Hersend	Sending	13th century	Kingdom of France	Surgeon who worked with King Ludwig IX in 1249 . went from France to the seventh crusade .
Margaret of Hungary	Margaret	1242	Kingdom of Hungary	She entered the Dominican order , where she led a holy life. In 1943 she was canonized .
Margaret of Burgundy	Marguerite of Bourgogne	1250	Tonnerre County	Countess of Tonnerre , Queen of Sicily, daughter of Odo of Burgundy and Mathilde II of Bourbon , Countess of Nevers , Auxerre and Tonnerre.
Mechthild from Hackeborn	Mechthild of Hackeborn	1241	Lutherstadt Eisleben	Cistercian and Christian mystic .
Mechthild of Magdeburg	Mechthild of Magdeburg	around 1207	Lutherstadt Eisleben	Christian mystic
Phillipe Auguste	Phillipe Auguste	unknown	unknown	In the volume accompanying the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Frankfurt from May 1 to June 28, 1987, it is mentioned that Phillipe Auguste (1164–1225) was a well-known sister in the Augustinian order in France. However, the dates of life also fit the French King Philip II , whose name was Phillipe Auguste .
Rosalia	Rosalia of Palermo	around 1130	Kingdom of Sicily , Palermo	Virgin and Hermit on Monte Pellegrino . She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church .
Teresa of Ávila	Theresa of Avila	1515	Kingdom of Castile	Carmelite and mystic . Patron saint of chess players, patron saint of Hispanic writers, church teacher , appointments as co-patron saint of Spain, honorary doctorate from the University of Salamanca , honorary doctorate from her home university, the Catholic University of Ávila .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Hildegarde of Bingen. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved October 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ John O'Donovan: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland . Hodges, Smith, and co., Dublin 1856, pp. 31 .
3. ^ Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party , Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition from May 1 to June 28, 1987, altanäum Verlag, Frankfurt, 1987, p. 123

Web links

Commons : The Dinner Party  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Brooklyn Museum, Hildegard von Bingen
• The Dinner Party on the website of Through the Flower , Judy Chicago's non-profit organization