Note 639 — Chapter VI · COSMOGONY, COSMOLOGY, AND COSMOGRAPHY

There are marked analogies between the theory of the microcosm as expounded by Herrad and by Hildegard of Bingen. Singer believes that “the theory, in the form in which these writers present it, reached the upper Rhineland somewhere about the middle or latter half of the twelfth century” (Singer, Visions of Saint Hildegard, 1917, p. 20).