A look at the visionary Hildegard of Bingen. She was a nun who, contrary to gender expectations, produced an impressive amount of writings on various subjects.


Script: Erica Bowler
Narration: Emily Von Hausen
Animation and Editing: Ross Von Hausen


Bibliography:
Hildegard of Bingen. Scivias. Translated by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop. Introduction by Barbara J. Newman. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.
—, Joseph L Baird, and Radd K Ehrman. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen. Vol. I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
—, The Book of Divine Works. Edited by Nathaniel M. Campbell. The Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 18. Washington, D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
—. “Vita.” In Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete, edited by Peter Dronke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Maddocks, Fiona. Hildegard of Bingen : The Woman of Her Age. London: Headline, 2001.

Matheson, Lister M. Icons of the Middle Ages: Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints. Vol. Volume 1. Greenwood Icons. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood, 2012.

Newman, Barbara. “Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation.” Church History, 54, no. 2
(1985): 16375.

Sketch of Disabodenberg by Andreas Rockstein