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“... Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century prophet extraordinaire, would not have been alarmed by the outbreak of Y2K fever, but she would have known how to seize the moment. Eight hundred years ago, readers treasured yet trembled at her predictions of the apocalypse to come, asking: When will the ominous ‘Age of the Fiery Dog’ begin? Which monasteries were to be seized by secular lords, humbled and disendowed? Had the Antichrist already been conceived in his mother’s womb? Was there still time to avert the threatened wrath of God? In later centuries, Hildegard would be credited with predicting everything from the English Reformation to the Napoleonic Wars ...”

“... wasn’t perfectly inherited in the centuries following Hippocrates: Pliny skated over it, while Hildegard of Bingen dismissed willow as ‘not useful’. But it is useful: salicylates retard the body’s production of chemicals called prostaglandins, which trigger fever and communicate pain. Aspirin also retards the ...”

“... and an abbot enjoyed – still enjoys? – the kind of prestige that Suger of St Denis or Hildegard of Bingen had in the early medieval era. Luang Phor Khom (Venerable Monk Called Khom) was ordained in 1922 and became abbot in this rural backwater in 1936; at the apex of a system of polite slavery and homosocial ...”

“... within the context of our culture – to be inspired than to be insane. In the 11th century Hildegard of Bingen experienced a series of migraine-like attacks, associated with dramatic visual auras. One such vision she described as follows: ‘I saw a great star most splendid and beautiful, and with it an exceeding ...”

“... herself fits into no obvious category. She had little in common with such Medieval precursors as Hildegard of Bingen, Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena. She belonged to no religious order and claimed no spiritual experience. She bore two children by her lover, the second during her imprisonment by the ...”

“... of St Victor, Suger, Otto of Freising, John of Salisbury, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, Hildegard of Bingen, Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Roger Bacon, Snorri Sturluson, Leonardo Fibonacci, Aquinas and many others – was not so very backward. (Moreover, Western Europe had already outstripped ...”

“... blatantly rejecting any vision of the unity of culture.’ I do not think that the Europe of Hildegard of Bingen, Ramon Llull, Meister Eckhart, Thomas à Kempis, Catherine of Siena, John of the Cross, Henry Vaughan, Blaise Pascal, George Fox, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, William Law, William Blake, William ...”

“... ranges effortlessly across the major arts, we are treated to learned disquisitions on Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Pico della Mirandola, Leonardo, Milton, Rameau, Sade, Mozart, Balzac, Darwin, Wagner, Rodin, Philip Pullman and a supporting cast of hundreds. A single page, selected at random and by no means the most ...”

“... to the labial petals of Sappho and O’Keefe. The guests of honour include Kali and Boudica, Hildegard of Bingen and Natalie Barney. One can admire the sheer nerve of the piece, in particular the greedy elbows-out way in which it occupies space (The Dinner Party is often described as ‘epic’ and ...”

“... Sings (2019), meanwhile, she summons a chorus of ‘gabfull women’, from Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen to Valerie Solanas and Audre Lorde.Why does Alysoun remain such a compelling figure? One reason is that she’s the most fully formed of the Canterbury pilgrims. Chaucer introduces her in the General ...”

“... He is read as a guru who can authenticate neurologically the art of Proust and the visions of Hildegard of Bingen, confirm the veridical aspects of Borges’s imagination, and reinforce our belief that salvation can be ours provided our brains are able to connect in the Forsterian way. He acts as the non-fictional ...”