History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
...education and the means to attain some measure of autonomy. One woman who took advantage of these opportunities was Hildegard of Bingen. Born in the Rhineland, the tenth child of noble parents, Hildegard was educated from the age of eight at the Benedictine monastery at Mount St Disibode. She took her religious vows in her teens. Having experienced prophetic visions from...