Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women Before 1400

Hildegard Revolutionize Traditional Medicine (1x29)

Air date: Jan 01, 2019

Meet one of the most famous women of the Middle Ages. Pledged as a nun from the age of eight, Hildegard put the considerable knowledge she acquired to work through her writings. Her texts on medicine are notable for their blending of ideas that were drawn from the masculine and feminine spheres, as well as the insight they provide into medieval medical practice.