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Bingen, Hildegard of
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Hildegard, a virgin prophete- engraved by W.Marshall
Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098 –1179), was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. And she suffered [and really suffered] from migraine
Despite her health problems she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature illuminations.
Although the history of her formal recognition as a saint is complicated, she has been recognized as a saint by parts of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries.
Elizabeth Spearing – Medieval writings on Female Spirituality
The visions are intensely dramatic and brilliantly coloured, sometimes reflecting, it has been suggested, the visual disturbances of migraine
Hildegard of Bingen from The Vita
At one time, because of a dimming of my eyes, I could see no light; I was weighed down in body by such a weight that I could not get up, but lay there assailed by the most intense pains….
Observations
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- Bingen, Hildegard of - A vision of flames and stars
- Bingen, Hildegard of - And their sound was like the voice of a multitude
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Barley
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Broad Beans
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Cinnamon
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Cumin
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Feverfew
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Galingale
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Ginger
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Helped by monks
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Lentils
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Lettuce
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Liber Divinorum Operum 13th century
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Licorice
- Bingen, Hildegard of - My spirit mounts upwards into the height of the firmament
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Nigella
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Oats
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Out of body
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Peas
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Pepper
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Radish
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Rye
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Scivias, Rupertsberg Codex, 12th century
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Spelt
- Bingen, Hildegard of - The valley of scorpions
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Turnip
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Walls of flame
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Werk Gottes map
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Wheat
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Wild Lettuce
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Zedoary (Turmeric)
- Hildegard of Bingen - 1141, Bingen, Germany - And it came to pass…. that the heavens were opened
- Hildegard von Bingen - Canticles Of Ecstasy
- Hildegard von Bingen: De Sancta Maria - O tu, suavissima virga, Responsorium