A considerable portion of Scivias was written before Hildegard removed to the Rupertsberg.
In Hildegard, as in Dante, descriptions of heavens blessedness are pale in comparison with the highly-coloured happenings in hell.
In her reply to this letter Hildegard admits Elisabeths power of prophecy.
This illness of Hildegard was the longest and the most typical, but by no means the only one through which she passed.
Trotula herself lived in the eleventh century, a generation or two before Hildegard.
