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A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total ...
A new study reveals that female scribes played a far more significant role in medieval book production than previously thought. And their contributions have been hiding in plain sight.
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total ...
The mythical female pope is back in the news as an academic uses medieval coins to look for physical evidence of her reign Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History September 19, 2018 ...
Medieval woman artist unmasked by her teeth. Precious dust found in the mouth of a woman buried a thousand years ago opens a previously unknown window into the lives of female scribes.
Hodgson believes she was a highly educated woman of high status—possibly a female scribe or an abbess—who lived sometime in the early medieval period (between 700 and 750 CE).
Beach also identified a book using lapis lazuli that was written by a female scribe in Germany around a.d. 1200. The pigment would have traveled nearly 4,000 miles from Afghanistan to Europe via ...
A medieval grave in Finland that was thought to hold the body of a female warrior or ruler has revealed a surprise — the person buried there may be non-binary.