Hildegarde of Bingen

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Hildegarde of Bingen 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.
Photograph of an illumination in a copy of Hildegarde of Bingen's major work "Liber Scivias". It shows the author in the act of composing. Seated under an archway, with her feet resting on a stool, she wears a black robe and head covering. Tongues of fire reach down from heaven to touch her head. She appears to be writing on a wax tablet, but the monk who seems agog to hear her is also said to be her scribe.

Milestones

Summer 1098

Hildegarde of Bingen was born in Bermersheim near Alzey, Germany.
Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge.
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Hildegarde of Bingen,. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Translators Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, Vol.
volume i
, Oxford University Press.
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1141-1151

Hildegarde of Bingen wrote the first work of her visionary trilogy, the Liber Scivias (Know the Ways).
Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge.
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1163-1174

Hildegarde of Bingen wrote the third volume of her visionary trilogy, the Liber divinorum operum (Book of the Divine Works).
Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge.
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17 September 1179

Hildegarde of Bingen died in Rupertsberg.
Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge.
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Newman, Barbara. “’Sibyl of the Rhine’: Hildegard’s Life and Times”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, pp. 1-29.
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Biography

Summer 1098

Hildegarde of Bingen was born in Bermersheim near Alzey, Germany.
Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge.
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Hildegarde of Bingen,. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Translators Baird, Joseph L. and Radd K. Ehrman, Vol.
volume i
, Oxford University Press.
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She was the tenth and last child of her parents, Mechtild and Hildebert.
Newman, Barbara. “’Sibyl of the Rhine’: Hildegard’s Life and Times”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, pp. 1-29.
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