Photo (excerpt) by Ralph Hammann via Wikimedia Commons; licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 St. Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century German nun, but she was also a writer, composer of chants, mystic, and ...

This music was written by Hildegard of Bingen, who lived nearly 1000 years ago in Germany. Inspiration came to her as visions that only she could see, and she believed they were from God.

Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman analyses Hildegard of Bingen, and he role in furthering female rights in the Medieval church. The context of her work and its nature are examined and assessed. The male ...