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Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)| German abbess, writer, and composer. Her encyclopedia of natural history, Liber simplicis medicinae (1150–60), giving both Latin and German names for the species described as well as their medicinal uses, is the earliest surviving scientific book by a woman. |
| Hildegard was abbess of the Benedictine convent of St Disibode, near the Rhine, from 1136. |
| She wrote a mystical treatise, Liber Scivias 1141, and collected her lyric poetry in the 1150s into one volume, providing each individual text with music. The poetry is vivid, reflecting the visions she experienced throughout her life. The melodic structure of her music is based on a small number of patterns (similar to motifs), which are repeated in different modes. |
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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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