A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...
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The hidden hand of medieval female scribes
Previous work provided compelling evidence of women's roles in such environments yet was not designed to offer broad-scale quantitative assessments. In the study, "How Many Medieval and Early ...
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A look at the world of medieval manuscripts created by women
March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...