The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen: Volume IThe first translation into English of the complete correspondence of the remarkable twelfth century Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098 1179), this study consists of nearly four hundred letters, in four projected volumes. Addressed to some of the most notable people of the day, as well as to some of the humble status, the correspondence reveals the saint in ways her more famous works leave obscure: as a determined reformer, as castigating