Trapped History

Hall of Fame: The Sibyl of the Rhine


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Jet's nomination for the Trapped History Hall of Fame is an oldie – 850 years old, to be precise. A Renaissance Woman centuries before the Renaissance, a queen of music, philosophy, science and medicine, the Mother of Everything: we give you Hildegard von Bingen.

Throw in poetry, mysticism and sainthood and you have perhaps the greatest genius of the medieval world. Kings, emperors and popes certainly thought so as they sought our her teachings on the weightiest matters of their age.

So tune in to find out why a Gladiator thinks an Abbess should be in the Hall of Fame . . .

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