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An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Ages, her legacy comprising some of the most radiant accounts of religious experience ever.

Can one woman's mystical visions and musical compositions reshape the spiritual landscape of the Middle Ages? This documentary traces the intellectual fire of a polymath who defied medieval constraints to command both the heavens and the earth.