Born
Born the tenth child of a noble family in the Rhineland. Given to the church as a tithe at age eight, she was enclosed with the anchoress Jutta at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg.
Hildegard was given to the church at eight years old. She experienced visions from childhood but kept them secret until her forties, when a voice commanded her to write. The result was Scivias, a visionary cosmology unlike anything in the medieval tradition. She composed seventy-seven liturgical songs, wrote on medicine and natural history, founded two monasteries, and corresponded with popes, emperors, and Bernard of Clairvaux. She is the first composer whose biography is known. She described the universe as a cosmic egg animated by divine love.
Born the tenth child of a noble family in the Rhineland. Given to the church as a tithe at age eight, she was enclosed with the anchoress Jutta at the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg.