By Katrin on Friday, 28 March 2025
Category: and now for something completely different

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. 

And... you can read the full article, open-access, here.  

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