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Hildegard of Bingen

1098 – 1179

Abbess, composer, and author of the first known European medical texts by a woman.

Germany·Medicine · Literature

Dante Alighieri

1265 – 1321

Made a dialect into a nation's language and mapped the moral universe.

Italy·Literature · PhilosophyFull profile

Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 – 1400

Made English a literary language with The Canterbury Tales.

United Kingdom·Literature