Hildegard von Bingen was born in Bermersheim, in the Rhineland, in 1098 — making her a near-contemporary of the First Crusade and of the great flowering of Romanesque art and architecture across Europe. She died in 1179, having outlived nearly everyone of her generation, having written more than any woman of her era, and having composed a body of sacred music that remains, nine centuries later...

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