The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of Blessed Hildegard von Bingen (Sukowa), 12th-century ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook At the time of the Crusades, corporal punishment in religious orders was commonplace. This ...

More than 800 years after her death, Hildegard von Bingen has become a beloved icon, a visionary nun whose writings on faith and science, songs and independent spirit live on and continue to inspire.

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About Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), one of the most important women of the medieval age. She was a visionary, poet, composer, naturalist healer and theologian, who founded convents, corresponded ...