An early feminist
Composer, theologian, writer, natural scientist, Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbot who lived from 1098 to 1179, refused to allow the church to treat women as subservient to men. Many recognise her as s an early feminist.
Her hymn De Spiritu Sancto, performed by the St. Stanislav Girls’ Choir, Ljubljana, conducted by Helena Fojkar Zupančič. (Suggest full screen)
