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Season 2 Episode 3 - Hildegard of Bingen and the Power of Women
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) is the most popular German of the Middle Ages - on a par with the powerful of her time. She was a visionary, a natural scientist, a politician and composer, a theologian, and even the manager of two monasteries she founded. Many of her writings, especially her knowledge of natural medicine, have lost none of their relevance to this day. Others still raise questions. While some suspect in Hildegard's visions a kind of drug intoxication of the herbalists, others see in it a prophetic gift, even a proof of her holiness.
Episodes in Season 2
Charlemagne and the Saxons
43 min
Frederick II. and the Crusade
43 min
Hildegard of Bingen and the Power of Women
43 min
Charles IV. and the Black Death
43 min
Thomas Müntzer and the Peasants' War
43 min
Augustus the Strong and Love
43 min
Karl Marx and the Class Struggle
43 min
Ludwig II. and the Bavarians
43 min
Rosa Luxemburg and Freedom
43 min
Gustav Stresemann and the Republic
43 min