ABSTRACT
Hildegard of Bingen was a Benedictine nun, a visionary who documented her experiences in a series of complex theological works, a composer, and Germany's first known female physician, best known for her visionary work Know the Ways. Christina was born with the name Theodora into the English nobility, later becoming prioress of Markyate. The writings of Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, an important rabbinic figure, include accounts in prose and in poetry of the lives and deaths of his wife Dolce and their daughters Bellette and Hannah, murdered in November 1196 when armed men broke into their household. Margery Kempe was a middle-class woman from King's Lynn in Norfolk who controversially abandoned her married life on being urged to do so by religious visions.
