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Herrad of Landsberg and the Garden of Delights.
Herald of landsberg biography of mahatma
Herrad of Landsberg
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Herrad of Landsberg (c - July ) was a 12th century Alsatiannun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains.
She is known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).
Herrad of Landsberg was born about at the castle of Landsberg, the seat of a noble Alsatian family. She entered the Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains, about fifteen miles from Strasbourg, at an early age.
She became abbess there in and continued in that office until her death.
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Hortus Deliciarum
As early as Herrad had begun within the cloister walls the work for which she is best known, the Hortus Deliciarum, a compendium of all the sciences studied at that time, including theology.
In it, Herrad delves into the battle of Virtue and Vice with vivid visual imagery preceding the text.
The work, as one would expect from what we know of