Hildegard of Bingen was born in 1098 in Bermersheim vor der Höhe. A German Benedictine abbess, Hildegard became one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She experienced visions from childhood, which she recorded in the book Scivias, with the approval of the Church. She founded convents at Rupertsberg and Eibingen, composed a large body of liturgical music and a morality play, and wrote on medicine and natural history in the Physica and Causae et Curae. She corresponded with popes, emperors and kings, and preached in public, which was unusual for a woman. She was canonized in 2012 and proclaimed a Doctor of the Church.
Before and after
- 27 November 1095Pope Urban II calls the First Crusade
- 1096Founding of University of Oxford
- from 1096 to 1099First Crusade
- from April 1096 to October 1096People's Crusade
- 1098Birth of Hildegard of Bingen
- from 15 July 1099 to 18 May 1291Kingdom of Jerusalem
- from 11th century to 14th centuryOrigins of Catharism
- 11th centuryPublication of The Song of Roland
- 11th centuryBayeux Tapestry
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