Hildegarde of Bingen
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was a wide-ranging medieval author. She wrote medical texts, a liturgical play, poetry, songs, biblical commentaries, and hagiographies. Her collected correspondence includes letters to many influential people of her time as well as letters to anonymous parishoners. Apart from the fame of her musical compositions, she is best known for her religious visions, which she described and explicated in a series of three books.
- BirthName: Hildegard
- Religious: Hildegard of BingenThe addition of Bingen is derived from the town near which HB established a monastery in 1150.