Hildegard Von Bingen In English Translations By Michael R. Burch Comments

Epiphanies on Woman as Divine Love Incarnate
by Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) , also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine and Hildegardis Bingensis, was a German mystic who had visions of the Love of God beginning at age three. She was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath: a poet, writer, songwriter, composer, philosopher and medical writer/practitioner. remains one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany and perhaps the first notable environmentalist as well. She wrote poems and song lyrics in Latin.
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