Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues

by Cheryl Goggin

Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150) created the famous Trees of Vices and Virtues in De fructu carnis et spiritus, which he prepared before 1133 for illiterate lay brothers. This investigation provides an edition and translation of that work and defines its influential images. It also discovers the convoluted process through which Conrad developed that work into the Speculum virginum c.1140 – 1150 for religious women. This study reveals that Conrad composed that work for his two young women relat

ISBN: 9789004746879

521 pages

Published: 2025-12-01

Publisher: BRILL

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