Hildegard of Bingen

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to Redwood Community Radio's special series celebrating Women's History Month. Throughout history, women have led, innovated and broken barriers in every field, often against the odds. Let's dive into their stories and celebrate their achievements. [00:00:20] Speaker B: Welcome to a little piece for Women's History Month. My name is Florina and I would like to share a little bit about Hildegard. For Bingen, she was an important person for me. I mean she's in a life since almost. Since almost a thousand years. She lived from 1098 to 1179. She was also known as the Sybil of the Rhine. She was a German Benedict, abbess and polymath, active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary and as a medical writer and practitioner during the high Middle ages. And I got to know her a little bit at least her work through her medical writing and her incredible recipes when I studied naturopathy in Europe. She's one of the best known composers of sacred monophony as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by a number of scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Hillegard wrote theological, botanical and medicinal works as well as letters, hymns and an for the liturgy. She wrote poems and supervised miniature eliminations in the Rupelsberg manuscript of her first work, Scevius. She's just a very good example of a real visionary and mystic who brings music and healing, even astrology and deep science and writing all into one and showing the interconnectedness of all. So if you're more curious, go google her up, find out more about her. Hildegard von Bingen, or as you would say, auf Bingen. She was an incredible woman that inspired me in so many of my studies and. And check out her music. You will find it on online Liligt Funding and she wrote incredible music. All right, have a good day. [00:02:41] Speaker A: These women's stories remind us that courage, resilience and vision can transform the world. Keep celebrating, keep learning and keep lifting each other up because history is still being written. [00:02:56] Speaker C: Oh, I get hang.