Hildegard of Bingen
Mystic, Healer, Rebel
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Women in Time is a groundbreaking series of literary biographies bringing forgotten, overlooked, or misunderstood women back into vivid focus. Each volume offers a story not just of achievement, but of defiance – of women who shaped history by refusing to be shaped by it.
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Healer, Rebel tells the electrifying story of a woman who defied every expectation of her century – and then rewrote the terms entirely. Born in 1098 and tithed to the Church as a child, Hildegard spent decades enclosed in silence. But when her visions could no longer be contained, she emerged as one of the most astonishing voices of the medieval world: a composer of wild and celestial music, a healer with a holistic understanding centuries ahead of her time, and a visionary who dictated theology straight from light.
Told with literary sharpness, historical rigor, and emotional clarity, this biography is not hagiography – it is revelation. It traces Hildegard’s evolution from cloistered girl to prophetic force: her battles with Church authorities, her fierce letters to emperors, her defiant burial of the excommunicated, and her midnight dictations that produced books so strange and expansive they still unsettle theologians today. The book does not flinch from her contradictions or exaggerate her sainthood. It tells the truth of a woman who saw truth – and insisted on naming it, no matter the cost.
Through fire, illness, political resistance, and spiritual silence, Hildegard refused to be silenced. Her music now fills concert halls. Her writings shape feminist theology, medieval medicine, and visionary art. But Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Healer, Rebel returns her to what she was before the myth: a woman in time, whose voice could burn through stone.
Whether you’ve heard her name in chant, read her visions in fragments, or are meeting her for the first time, this book offers not a monument, but a meeting. Hildegard does not need to be reimagined. She only needs to be heard – on her own terms, in her own voice, and with the full weight of her extraordinary life.