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🗓️ 11 October 2024
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Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century nun, was a certified genius and a true polymath.
From her many side hustles to her skincare recommendations, she wrote about everything from what happens when the world ends to what the female orgasm feels like.
Why would a celibate nun know about this? What did she have to say about swollen testicles? And why were her achievements so significant?
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This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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1:13.0 | Hildeguard of Bingen was a genius, to put it mildly. |
1:18.0 | If it wasn't cool enough to be a 12th century nun and an abbess and write books about health and saint's lives. |
1:25.9 | She was also one of the first people that we know of to describe a woman orgasmy. |
1:31.3 | I mean that should be enough really to earn your place in the history |
1:34.1 | book shouldn't it? But she also wrote phenomenal music. She had religious visions which she recorded in |
1:40.5 | a book. She advised popes and bishops and kings. I mean come on Hildegard give the |
1:47.2 | rest of us a chance. Did I mention that she was actually canonized as well? It's |
1:51.4 | St Hildegard, thank you very much. But why would a nun be writing about an |
1:56.5 | orgasm in such detail? I mean, we have to find that one out, right? Let's do it. |
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