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The Secret World of Hildegard

Author: Winter, Jonah

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 4.7
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 1431
Points per Word 0.000349
Page Count 64
Points per Page 0.007812

Description

Hildegard von Bingen composed hymns and symphonies, painted, compiled books on medicine, and wrote religious revelations that inspired the respect of Popes and kings, all in the Dark Ages when most people were illiterate and women were disdained.