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Information Board on the Work of Hildegard of Bingen

Schubbay · 2018

A modern information panel summarizing Hildegard of Bingen's wide-ranging work for visitors.

This modern panel summarizes Hildegard's work, helping explain her significance to today's students.

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A photograph of an information board titled 'Das Wirken der Hildegard von Bingen' describing her work.
Schubbay, Infotafel Das Wirken der Hildegard von Bingen, 2018.

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This is a modern explanatory panel (Infotafel) created in 2018 that describes the many fields of work of Hildegard of Bingen. It is a secondary, educational source rather than an object from her own lifetime.

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Hildegard of Bingen was a Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, and visionary thinker. This panel shows how later generations try to summarize and explain her broad achievements to the public today.

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