Browsing all posts in January, 2010.

The Time Machine

In literary analysis, a “destabilizing event” is that thing that happens after the characters have been proffered and the setting detailed. It’s what sets the characters off and rolling in the direction of the author’s choosing. In a journey-type story, there may be more than one, but there is always at least one. I had [...]

Hildegard of Bingen

While Madam Trota may have been the authority on medieval maternity, a new voice was popping up in 12th century Germany. Hildegard of Bingen, sometimes referred to as Saint Hildegard (although never officially canonized), was the Abbess of Rupertsberg, and is best known for her mystic visions.  She was also a woman way, way ahead [...]