Volmar: escriba y confidente de Hildegarda de Bingen
Keywords:
Volmar, Hildegarda de Bingen, Historia Medieval, Medioevo, MonacatoAbstract
Volmar was a medieval Benedictine monk who served as a scribe and confidant to the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen. Hildegard’s life was marked by monasticism, remarkable visions, and a tremendous body of work, excelling in various areas of knowledge such as theology, medicine, music, and science. Hildegard of Bingen and Volmar worked together for several decades, where the latter was fundamental to the medieval nun’s life and work. There is little biographical information about Volmar, and it can only be accessed through Hildegard’s work, given that there are also doubts about Volmar’s own written legacy. Despite the above, it can be established that Volmar served as the abbess’s personal scribe, making key contributions to Scivias, Hildegard’s first work, but also acting as a confidant and spiritual support. Volmar’s work is substantial, reinforcing the idea of the important work behind great historical figures. It stands out even more in an era where the patriarchal structure predominated and limited the role of women. In this context, the relationship between Hildegard and Volmar is striking,
being an example of ecclesial collaboration between women and men that is rarely seen throughout history.
References
Baird, J. L. (2006). The Personal Correspondence of Hildegard of Bingen. Oxford University
Press.
Balcarce, P. E. (2022). Estudio de una ptosis ocular en un manuscrito iluminado del siglo
XIII. Revista de Neurología, 74(6), 202-206.
https://doi.org/10.33588/rn.7406.2021383
Calderón, E. (2024). San Benito de Nurcia y el origen y la instalación del monacato en
Occidente. Revista chilena de estudios medievales, (26), 31-51.
Cirlot, V. (2012). Hildegard von Bingen y la Tradición Visionaria de Occidente. Herder.
Cirlot, V. (2023). Vida y Visiones de Hildegarda de Bingen. Siruela.
Crovetto, P. (2024). Presencia femenina en el renacimiento del siglo XII, Pernoud y Duby en
el debate historiográfico. Revista chilena de estudios medievales, (25), 75-94.
Cymbalista, M. C. (2001). Santa Hildegardis y Santa Gertrudis. Dos mujeres religiosas
medievales. Cyber Humanitatis, 19.
Embach, M. (2021). The Life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179). En J. Bain (Ed.), The
Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (pp. 11-36). Cambridge University
Press.
Fassler, M. (2021). Hildegard of Bingen and Her Scribes. En J. Bain (Ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (pp. 280-305). Cambridge University Press.
Fletcher, C. (2021). Reading Hildegard of Bingen’s Letter. En J. Bain (Ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (pp. 105-124). Cambridge University Press.
Garí, B. (1994). El confesor de mujeres ¿Mediador de la palabra femenina en la baja Edad
Media? Medievala, 11, 133-141.
Garí, B. (2001). Vidas espirituales y práctica de la confesión. La recepción y transmisión de
la auto-biografía espiritual femenina en la Península Ibérica y el Nuevo Mundo. Acta
histórica et archaeological mediaevalia, 22, 679-696.
Góngora, M. E. (2003). Hildegard von Bingen: Una introducción. Revista Chilena de
Literatura, 62, 121-125.
Góngora, M. E. (2005). Escritura e imagen visionaria en el liber divinorum operum de
Hildegard de Bingen. Teología y Vida, 46, 374-388. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0049-
Góngora, M. E. (2009). Introducción. Escritua e imagen visionaria en el Libro de las obras
divinas de Hildegarda de Bingen. En Hildegarda de Bingen, Libro de las obras
divinas (M. I. Flisfich, M. E. Góngora y M. J. Ortúzar. Trad. pp. 11-65). Herder.
Góngora, M. E. (2012). Acercamiento a las emociones medievales: Dos cartas de Hildegard
de Hingen (1098-1179). Revista chilena de literatura, (82), 143-157.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22952012000200008
Hildegarda de Bingen (1999). Scivias: Conoce los caminos. Editorial Trotta.
Hildegarda de Bingen. (2009). Libro de las Obras Divinas. Herder.
Maillet, P. (2024). La demonización de la mujer durante la edad media. Revista chilena de
estudios medievales, (25), 41-55.
Moulinier-Brogi, L. (2020). Femmes enfermées du XIIe siècle: “Aliénor, Héloïse et quelques
autres”. De Medio Aevo, 14, 99-115. https://doi.org/10.5209/dmae.69879
Newman, B. (1998). “Sibyl of the Rhine”. Hildegard’s Life and Times. En B. Newman (Ed.),
Voice of the Living Light (pp. 1-29). University California Press.
Pairet, C. I. (1999). Hildegarda de Bingen y la práctica de la autoridad. DUODA Revista
d´Estudis Feministes, 16, 81-95.
Parentelli, G. (2007). Hildegard von Bingen, ecofeminista pionera. Revista Venezolana de
Estudios de la Mujer, 12(29), 227-230.
Picón, D. (2009). La ‘conciencia como escriba’: Una escena de escritura interior en la obra
de Hildegard de Bingen. Revista Chilena de Literatura, 74, 123-137.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22952009000100006
Rabassó, G. (2013). De la experiencia místico-cognoscitiva a la epistemología mística:
Hildegarda de Bingen. Mirabilia, 172, 100-114.
Rabassó, G. (2016). Sapientia docet me. Hildegarda de Bingen y la filosofía. Mediaevalia.
Textos e estudos, 35, 7-50. https://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21836884/med35a1
Ramírez-Alvarado, M., Mata-Núnez, & A., Guarinos, V. (2024). Imágenes de revelación:
iluminaciones del universo en el Liber Divinorum Operum de Hildegard von Bingen
De Medio Aevo, 13(1), 139-151. https://doi.org/10.5209/dmae.92271
Ross, 2023. https://www-newyorker-com.translate.goog/magazine/2023/02/06/hildegard-ofbingen-
composes-thecosmos?_
x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=tc
Santos, J. C. (2022). El fragmento de Berlín atribuido a Hildegarde de Bingen y la actividad
del scriptorium de Rupertsberg. Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 52(2), 857-886.
https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2022.52.2.15
Silvas, A. (1998). Jutta & Hildegard: The Biographical Sources. The Pennsylvania State
University Press.
Sweeney, A. (2008). Political Agendas in the Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Journal of
Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato 8, Article 14.
https://doi.org/10.56816/2378-6949.1084
Vilches, I. (2001). Hildegard von Bingen y Bernardo de Clairvaux: Una voluntad de ser.
Cyber Humanitatis, 19.
Wallis, F. (2021). Hildegard of Bingen: Illnes and Healing. En J. Bain (Ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to Hildegard of Bingen (pp. 144-169). Cambridge University Press.
How to Cite
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Eduardo Herrera Aliaga, Lissett Muñoz Carrasco, Manuel E. Cortés
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Those authors who have publications with this journal accept the following terms:
- The authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the magazine the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons Recognition License that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author is indicated and his first publication in this magazine.
- The authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (for example: depositing it in an institutional electronic archive or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
- Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional electronic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations. of the published work. (See The Effect of Open Access).
