![]() Hildegard was called the “Sibyl of the Rhine” for her prophetic visions and received many notables asking for her guidance. She also supervised the production of many brilliant miniature illuminations. She wrote theological, naturalistic, botanical, medicinal, and dietary texts as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and the first surviving morality play. At a time when women were often not recognized in the public and religious sphere she was also an author, counselor, artist, physician, healer, dramatist, linguist, naturalist, philosopher, poet, political consultant, visionary, and composer of music. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German religious teacher, prophetess, and abbess. Hildegard of Bingen was called the “Sibyl of the Rhine” because of her apocalyptic visions. Hildegard von Bingen receives a divine inspiration and passes it on to her writer / From Miniatur aus dem Rupertsberger Codex des Liber Scivias, Wikimedia Commons ![]()
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