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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: 29. Chapters: 1179 births, 1179 deaths, 1179 establishments, 1179 in Europe, 1179 in law, 1179 works, Conflicts in 1179, Hildegard of Bingen, Croxden Abbey, Battle of Jacob's Ford, To Hi n Thanh, John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut, Bishopric of Brixen, Constance of Aragon, Lakshman Sen, Jeong Jung-bu, Vijay Sen, Richard de Luci, Hermann von Salza, Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne, Erling Skakke, Marguerite de Sable, Battle of Marj Ayyun, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Roger of Worcester, Kristin Sigurdsdatter, Humphrey II of Toron, Guihomar of Leon, Serapion of Algiers, Theobald III, Count of Champagne, Shunkan, Manifestis Probatum, William IV, Count of Ponthieu, Konoe Iezane, Cadwallon ap Madog, List of state leaders in 1179, Drigung Monastery, Wigmore Abbey, William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Llantarnam Abbey, Sancha of Castile, Queen of Navarre, Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani, Treaty of Cazola, Shimazu Tadahisa, Taira no Shigemori, Roman Catholic Diocese of Ischia, Donatus of Ripacandida, Maruyama Shrine, Ogasawara Nagatsune, Hemanta Sen. 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 ...
