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 ...
The hidden hand of medieval female scribes
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
They then used this figure to extrapolate how many of the total manuscripts produced during the Middle Ages were copied by ...
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More Medieval Texts Were Scribed by Women Than Previously Believed
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'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
She adds that lighter skin was idealised in women in medieval England and associated with virginity: "There is often a connection made between brightness of colouring – blonde hair, for example ...
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
Since roughly 75,000 of the 10 million medieval manuscripts have survived to modern times, the researchers posit that around 8,000 manuscripts copied by women are still in existence. The ...