Hildegard of Bingen (also known as Hildegarde von Bingen, l. 1098-1179) was a Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, and polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbology, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history. She refused to be defined by the patriarchal hierarchy of the Church and, although she abided by its strictures, pushed the established boundaries for women.
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1098 - 1179Life of Hildegard of Bingen.
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c. 1100Hildegard of Bingen begins to receive her visions around the age of three.
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1105Hildegard of Bingen enters the convent at Disibodenberg at the age of seven.
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1136Hildegard of Bingen becomes Abbess of Disibodenberg.
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c. 1142 - 1151Hildegard of Bingen's first major theological work Scivias composed.
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1150Hildegard of Bingen founds convent at Rupertsberg and moves her order there.
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1150 - 1158Hildegard of Bingen writes her Liber Subtilatum, a work on medicine and holistic health.
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1151Hildegard of Bingen writes her musical morality play Ordo Virtutum.
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1158 - 1163Hildegard of Bingen writes her second major theological work Liber Vitae Meritorum.
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1164 - 1174Hildegard of Bingen writes her third major theological work, Liber Divinorum Operum.
