Western Civilization I / Unit 11 WC1 1035 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hildegard of Bingen
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The idea
Universities were male. Hildegard of Bingen, ten ninety-eight to eleven seventy-nine, an abbess, was theologian, medical writer, composer and correspondent of popes and emperors, later a saint: the anchor's exception that shows where learned women could exist.
In practice
In convents and by tutoring, not in the schools.
Where people slip
Hildegard rests on the anchor alone.
Your place on the trail
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