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The Abbess of Quedlinburg

2008-07-13T01:10:53Z

Anna became the Abbess of Quedlinburg in 1755, although she chose to spend most of her time in Berlin, where she devoted herself to music, and became known as a musical patron and composer. In 1758, she began a serious study of musical theory and ...

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Very brave woman

2008-07-13T01:07:59Z

It seems that princess was a very brave and passionate woman. When she was twenty years old, Anna met Friedrich von der Trenck, whose adventurous life inspired works by literary giants such as Victor Hugo and Voltaire. In 1743, Anna secretly marri...

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Gifted princess

2008-07-13T01:04:52Z

In my blog entries, I describe mostly outstanding creative people who had God given talents in spite of the harsh times that they were living. Luckily, not everybody is born a genius. There were other composers. I would not call them minor talents...

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Poetry of passion and love

2008-07-10T17:21:00Z

She speaks of time spent in Lydia, one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries of that time. More specifically, Sappho speaks of her friends and happy times among the ladies of Sardis, capital of Lydia, once the home of Croesus and near the ...

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The greatest lyric poet of antiquity

2008-07-10T17:17:35Z

Everybody heard about Sappho, at least in connection with the island of Lesbos. Researchers say, that Sappho's birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and that she died around 570 BC. Unfortunately, the bulk of her poetry, which was well-kno...

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Talented women of Dark Ages

2008-07-10T16:46:52Z

I went through more manuscripts and found more interesting personalities from so called Dark Ages. In my previous post I mentioned that Medieval women worked a lot on illumination. Manuscript illumination affords us many of the named artists of t...

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Medieval women with artistic talents

2008-07-10T16:38:50Z

In the twelfth century there was the rise of the city in Europe, along with the rise in trade, travel, and universities. These changes in society also influenced the lives of women. Women were allowed to head their spouses' businesses, if they wer...

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Renaissance woman

2008-06-27T00:26:15Z

After passing of Jutta who had many followers, Hildegard was elected to be a leader of her sister community. Then she was still in doubt about her visions. But then Hildegard decided that her visions were instructions from God. She confided in Ju...

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Hildegard of Bingen

2008-06-27T00:22:45Z

There was something unusual about her right from the start. She was born in 1098, and since childhood started to experience visions. And when she was just a little kid, Hildegard astonished her parents with her psychic powers. She told her parent...

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Like a big rock star

2008-06-21T18:34:46Z

Some would call Hildegard of Bingen who lived in early medieval period a polymath or a Renaissance woman who was ahead of her time. But I would call her a true psychic, who also had unusual telepathic abilities. In the barbaric times of the eleven...

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