History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
...works are books of theology, some of which are based upon her visions. Her surviving works also include more than a hundred letters to emperors and popes, bishops, nuns, and nobility, which reflect her single-mindedness, independent spirit, and refusal to be intimidated by power or authority. Hildegard travelled throughout southern Germany and into Switzerland and as far...