Presentation Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard von Bingen

By: Nicolás Arrebola and Julián Sánchez

Index

1. Biography

11. Musical works

111. Most important writings and texts

1V. Curiosities

I. Biography

1. Hildegard von Bingen was born in 1098 in Germany.

2. Her parents confined her in the monastery of San Disibodo when she was 8 years old.

3. In 1136, she was voted the chief nun between her sisters and fellows.

Her hallows

4. In 1141 she had a vision coming from God telling her to write down all she saw and heard.

5. She died in 1179, at the age of 81 years, being one of the most important woman of the Middle Ages.

II. Musical works

O Virtus Sapientiae

O quam preciosa

O ignee Spiritus

Theese are some of the musical works of Hildegard Von Vigen, She wrote 78 pieces, and she collected them in the ¨Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum¨.

III. Most important writings and texts

Scivias

Liber Divinorum Operum

Is a work dealing with mystical and theological visions

is a text that deals with theological and cosmogonical themes.

it was written from 1141 to 1151

it was written from 1170 to 1173

IV. Curiosities

Hildegard von Bingen was a versatile abbess, a physicist, a philosopher, a naturalist, a composer, a poet and a medieval linguistic.

She was one of the first women to talk openly about sex.

She had 9 siblings.

She founded 2 monasteries.

She wrote 12 books.

The movie 'Vision' (2009) talks about her life.

In 2012, she was appointed doctor by Pope Benedict XVI.

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