Laurence Moulinier, Université Lumière Lyon 2
The question of the book culture of the Rhenish Benedictine Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was brilliantly raised in the 1930s by Hans Liebeschutz in his work Das allegorische Weltbild der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen, and was subsequently constantly taken up without being completely trench.
However, it is now clear that Hildegard did not live apart from the knowledge of her time, but that her persona as a visionary forbade her to assign the origin of her knowledge to any source other than God alone. Hildegarde having left very varied writings, notably on medicine, my communication will take up this vexata questio through the prism of the medical culture of the
twelfth century.