How to pronounce “hildegard” in English

Hildegard's model was much more of the body as a plant, rather than as a machine, and the doctor more like a gardener, than a mechanic.

Hildegard was a 12th century German nun.

Hildegard's idea was that the body was more like a plant than a machine.

Hildegard called the power of a plant to heal itself its viriditas, its greening power, from the Latin "viridis", meaning "green."

And Hildegard had a name for the power of a plant to heal itself.

This poem by Hildegarde Von Bingen from 1124-- "glance at the sun, see the moon and the stars,

We are joined now by Hildegard Bentele.

Member of the European Parliament Hildegard Bentele, thank you so much for joining us here on DW.

We heard a little bit of Hildegard von Bingen as well at the beginning, and Ovid as well.

And the solution for me was Hildegard von Bingen, this mystic, 11th century German abbess, and this idea

I was studying the medical writings of Hildegard of Bingen.

I didn't really understand what Hildegard meant by viriditas until my patient Terry Becker.

It was quite amazing how fast Hildegard's prescription worked.

Her name was Hildegard of Bingen.

And what I decided to do was to really learn Hildegard's medicine as if I were its student, by reading her medical text in its original language

I asked myself, "What would Hildegard do?

And what I found over time, I got more and more interested in the difference between Hildegard's model of the body and our model of the body

The second time with the patient, I thought about Hildegard.

traveling to the moon, to politicians like JFK who actually made that happen, to mystics like Hildegard von Bingen who explored what flying meant in the context of being

But I decided then and there that I was going to go back to school and get a PhD in medical history, with Hildegard as my focus.

Meanwhile, I'd gone back, as I had decided to do, to get my PhD in medical history with Hildegard of Bingen as my focus.

So I have, especially in the Medieval Period I've been able already to give a lot of coverage to individual female thinkers, like Hildegard