The role women played during this period was, they volunteer for simple jobs. They were entering spiritual houses at increasing rates due to the broaden new orders of the 12th century (284). Most of the women who joined a monastery were aristocrats whom did not want to get marry. Others, came from families whom were unable to find husbands for them to marry. One of the most important and first superiors of a convent was Hildegard of Bingen. She became a superior at a convent in Disibodenberg in western Germany (284). She is well known as a contributor to Gregorian
