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 ...
Mashable7y
How Medieval Times got a queen before America got a female president
Medieval Times Queen Allyssa O'Donnell at her premiere show in Schaumburg, Ill in Dcemeber. Credit: lou foglia/chicago tribune/TNS via Getty Images The future will be female -- if not in Congress ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN11d
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 ...
News and Tribune14d
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 ...