Saint Hildegard

"Famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was by any standards a remarkably gifted woman: a composer and poet, she was also a writer on scientific, medical, and theological subjects, an abbess, a visionary prophet, and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the relatively few female writers and even fewer female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived to the present, Hildegard was neglected for...