. Studies in the history and method of science. s other towns of Germany,the Low Countries, and Central Europe. Hildegards journeys, undertaken with the object of stimulat-ing spiritual revival, ^ were of the nature of religious progresses,but, like those of her contemporary, Bernard of Clairvaux, theywere in fact largely directed against the heretical and most cruellypersecuted Cathari, an Albigensian sect widely spread in theRhine country of the twelfth century, whom Hildegard regardedas worse than the Jews .* In justice to her memory it is to be 1 Vita Sanctae Hildegardis auctoribus Godefri


. Studies in the history and method of science. s other towns of Germany,the Low Countries, and Central Europe. Hildegards journeys, undertaken with the object of stimulat-ing spiritual revival, ^ were of the nature of religious progresses,but, like those of her contemporary, Bernard of Clairvaux, theywere in fact largely directed against the heretical and most cruellypersecuted Cathari, an Albigensian sect widely spread in theRhine country of the twelfth century, whom Hildegard regardedas worse than the Jews .* In justice to her memory it is to be 1 Vita Sanctae Hildegardis auctoribus Godefrido et Theodorito monachis, lib. iii,cap. 1. The work has been frequently reprinted and is in Migne, PatrologiaLaiina, vol. 197, col. 91 ff. This volume will be quoted here simply as Migne . 2 Migne, col. 119. 3 The erroneous statement in some of her biographies that she journeyed toPari8 is based on a misunderstanding. * Cardinal J. B. Ktra, Analecta sacra, vol. viii, p. 350, Paris, 1882. Thisvolume will here be quoted simply as Pitra . lO o o. lit ii^b^ § i J ^, w QO u Q<CQ W 01 00 o o o n i 11 U^ c^^ t~t U ih *^ ih h te*«i a B^^tf ^ ig c III I*


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