CHRISTIAN WAYS OF LIFE AND DEATH.
... which the unknowable might actually be known. The greatest visionary was Hildegard of Bingen who was a nun of the Benedictine order. A scholar of both Latin and German(Her native language) she wrote various treatise on Science, medicine imaginary allegorical dialogue between virtue and vice and literature with meanings of scripture, nature of universe and the destiny of human soul. She wrote 77 devotional songs. Sermon Literature Mystic literature was for the literate class of Christians, while sermon literature was delivered orally from the pulpit of the church for the illiterate Christian community. It focused on body which, was subject to corruption, disease and carnal desire. Since it is a temple of soul, it will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment, but not before it suffers trials of mortality. Pope Innocent’s sermon reminds people about death, and after Bubonic plague, it tells about decay and destruction of human body, describing it as food for worms and fleas. It condemns the human body that was conceived in lust, born to toil and then to die. It speaks of puterifaction of human body, on nearness of death, and of vivid description of the fires of hell. (page97) Medieval Morality Play. Medieval Play were popular form of entertainment, as well as source of religious and moral instruction .The character in the play are personification of abstract qualities and universal conditions. In...