
Meet Hildegard of Bingen: The Abbess Who Did Everything
Composer, physician, theologian, correspondent of emperors — and she began her real work at 42, after decades of keeping her visions secret.
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Composer, physician, theologian, correspondent of emperors — and she began her real work at 42, after decades of keeping her visions secret.

At nineteen he wrote seventy rules for his own life and read them every week for the rest of it. Colonial America’s sharpest mind aimed itself first.

Half his colony died the first winter. He governed the survivors for thirty years — and wrote the honest story down.

She failed at business twice, raised fourteen children, and then walked to Jerusalem. The first autobiography in English belongs to a woman everyone called too much.

A prince left a palace to face the one thing wealth could not solve — and came back with a method, not a religion.