Hildegard of Bingen is one of the most famous composers of the medieval era. Professor Page introduces this singular figure:
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Blessed sage or charismatic migraine sufferer? Opinions on Hildegard of Bingen span the spectrum. Professor Page introduces this unique figure, and explains why she and her literary and musical work are so widely examined by modern scholars.

Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned performer and writer, as well as being an experienced presenter through BBC Radio. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology..

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A series of lectures concerned with the place of musical sound and art in medieval imagination and experience: its relation to patterns of fear, delight and awe. The setting for the lectures will be one of the few medieval churches of London to survive the Great Fire of 1666: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn.

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