>You forget: To many people, (I suspect the vast majority), Hildegard
>is primarily known as a *composer* who just happened to set her own
>mystical texts to a rather unique style of plainchant; she is for
>many
>people a token medieval composer as well as a token female composer,
>and she has been in vogue (both popularly and in terms of the musical
>world) as of late.
>A Hildegard tossup without any mention of music would be roughly
>equivalent to a question on Hroswitha, and both would be painful and
>pointless for 99.9% of the tournaments out there.
This was exactly my point as to why she's less obscure than
Hrotswitha. A lot of people outside of QB are familiar with
Hildegaard for her music. Anonymous Four and similar groups have
done a lot to revive her etc.