Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun, has been embraced by feminists for her groundbreaking leadership in the Catholic Church: despite a rigidly patriarchal culture, she founded ...

Synopsis About Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), one of the most important women of the medieval age. She was a visionary, poet, composer, naturalist healer and theologian, who founded convents ...

Art Hildegard von Bingen’s Eternal Garden The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists.

The story of Hildegard von Bingen. This 12th-century visionary Benedictine nun wrote works on a constantly changing world, which are closer to modern physics than the rigid ideas of the Middle Ages, ...