Grace Note

In Hildegard’S Shadow

Fiction & Literature, Historical
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Author: P. J. Parsons ISBN: 9781462031245
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: August 30, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: P. J. Parsons
ISBN: 9781462031245
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: August 30, 2011
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

It is 1106 when an eight-year-old girl named Hildegard comes from Bingen in Germany to live with Lysanor of Rupertsberg. One of the girls will become a twenty-first-century saint and icona mystic, physician, teacher, and, most importantly, a composer. The other will make her mark on the world as a grace notethe woman in the shadow. As their lives intertwine, two vastly different girls begin to build a friendship that will eventually lead both into experiences they never could have imagined.

As music begins to fill Lysanors life, her instrument the psalteryand her new roommate, Hildegard, become her constant companions. Sent away by her parents to prepare for a life serving God, Hildegard speaks little; her weak body is ravaged by illness. Still, Lysanor perseveres in her quest to befriend Hildegard, and eventually convinces her to join her in playing musiclifting Hildegards spirits in the process. Little does Lysanor know that with her gentle prompting, she has set Hildegard on the path to her destiny.

GRACE NOTE

is a tale rich in historical detail that allows others to imagine what really happened as Hildegard of Bingen slowly builds a reputation across churches, continents, and timea reputation that late in the twentieth century will be called into question.

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It is 1106 when an eight-year-old girl named Hildegard comes from Bingen in Germany to live with Lysanor of Rupertsberg. One of the girls will become a twenty-first-century saint and icona mystic, physician, teacher, and, most importantly, a composer. The other will make her mark on the world as a grace notethe woman in the shadow. As their lives intertwine, two vastly different girls begin to build a friendship that will eventually lead both into experiences they never could have imagined.

As music begins to fill Lysanors life, her instrument the psalteryand her new roommate, Hildegard, become her constant companions. Sent away by her parents to prepare for a life serving God, Hildegard speaks little; her weak body is ravaged by illness. Still, Lysanor perseveres in her quest to befriend Hildegard, and eventually convinces her to join her in playing musiclifting Hildegards spirits in the process. Little does Lysanor know that with her gentle prompting, she has set Hildegard on the path to her destiny.

GRACE NOTE

is a tale rich in historical detail that allows others to imagine what really happened as Hildegard of Bingen slowly builds a reputation across churches, continents, and timea reputation that late in the twentieth century will be called into question.

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