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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: 1098 births, 1098 deaths, 1098 establishments, Conflicts in 1098, Citeaux Abbey, Hildegard of Bingen, Adhemar of Le Puy, Siege of Antioch, Hugh de Grandmesnil, List of state leaders in 1098, Walkelin, Baldwin, Siege of Ma'arra, Raymond IV, Count of Pallars Jussa, Yaghi-Siyan, Mulheim, Cologne, Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani, Ephraim of Pereyaslavl, Thoros of Edessa, Wibald, Council of Bari, Siege of Capua, Nerses IV the Gracious, Gytha of Wessex, Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, Flaithbertaigh Ua Flaithbertaigh, John of the Grating, Poppo II, Margrave of Carniola, Hoysala Vinayaditya, Richard de Courcy, Dongpo Academy, Ereyanga, Yang Buzhi, William. Excerpt: Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (German: Latin: ) (1098 - 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sybil of the Rhine, was a writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, German Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama. She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations. Hildegard's preaching toursHildegard of Bingen's date of birth is uncertain. It has been concluded that she may have been born in the year 1098. Hildegard was raised in a family of free nobles. She was her parents' tenth child, sickly from birth. In her Vita, Hildegard explains that from a very young age she had experienced visions. Perhaps due to Hildegard's visions, or as a method of political positioning, Hildegard's parents, Hildebert and Mechthilde, offered her as a tithe to the church. The date of Hildegard's enclos...
