Abstract
This chapter looks at Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), one of the most brilliant and original women of the Middle Ages. She was a woman of wide-ranging talents: an abbess and a visionary, a musician and a composer, a dramatist and a poet, a medical writer and an herbalist, a preacher and a reformer, and the first medieval woman given official papal approval to preach publicly. Finally, Hildegard was a prolific writer of theological works and has been called “the first great woman theologian in Christian history”. Despite Bernard's sometimes combative temperament, he responded favorably to her pleas, and his warm reception helped launch Hildegard's long and successful career of writing, preaching, and artistic achievement.
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