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Hildegard of Bingen

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Hildegard of Bingen [ˈhɪldəgɑːd ˈbɪŋən]
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(Biographies / Hildegard of Bingen, Saint (1098-1179) F, German, RELIGION: abbess, WRITING: poet, MUSIC: composer, RELIGION: mystic) Saint. 1098-1179, German abbess, poet, composer, and mystic


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From Perpetua and Hildegard of Bingen to the 19th-century African-American preacher Jarena Lee and Madeleine L'Engle, women--whose stories are largely unknown in "Big C" Christian history--play a key role in Bass' alternate history.
Of interest to medievalists in art history, French, music, and drama, the papers reflect the writers' research on specific works and monuments, with topics that include the performative use of exterior inscriptions on Armenian churches, dramatic exegesis in Hildegard of Bingen, and the performance and staging of Passion plays.
In the dark ages of 12th century Germany, a wealthy child called Hildegard of Bingen grew up in a Benedictine convent because of her ill health - probably migraines or epilepsy - which gave her plenty of time to study medicine, botany, music, philosophy, theology, languages and "cosmology," the study of the universe.
 
 
 
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