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Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix
Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
Guest - Beatrix
Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion.
Firstly, going from that lovely l...
Medieval Women Scribes.
Aaaand... we're back at the gender discussions. Because there's been recent research about the scribes writing the medieval manuscripts - and in some cases, the scribes left a colophon, that is some information about the manuscript and its making. And in some of them, there's information about the scribes themselves. Including, well, their names.
So a group of researchers has looked at colophones for an attempt to quantify the role that female scribes played in the medieval manuscript-writing and copying.
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