Hildegard Von Bingen Research Paper

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One of the first extraordinary woman was Hildegard von Bingen, a German woman that lived in the twelfth- century and was raised by a noble family. As an adult, Hildegard was a author and composer. Her knowledge to heal people made her history, using, herbs and medicine, as well as her visions of God, she was knows as a mystic. Hildegard refused to accept the life that most medieval women had, she argued and disobeyed this authority. He refused to accept that men were superior to women. For that matter, she was able to attend a cloister through many connections. Her achievement and ambition to support education and independence for women was highly influential that the Pope Benedict XVI mentioned her in a speech that represented Hildegard as