Daily Archives: January 26, 2020


#8: Herrad von Landsberg

Herrad of Landsberg was an amazing woman from the 12th century.  She was a very well-educated abbess, and her community resided at the Hohenburg Abbey in Eastern France.  She’s allegedly the first woman to write an encyclopedia.  Herrad was born about 30 years after Hildegard of Bingen, another woman who is […]