Hildegard of Bingen was a saint, composer and poet. But it's only recently that her songs, writings and remarkable life and visions have been rediscovered. She was born over 900 years ago and for most ...

The most curious episode in Hildegard’s biography—two approachable accounts are Fiona Maddocks’s “Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age,” from 2001, and Honey Meconi’s “Hildegard ...