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 exceeding ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

But what about the women? 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 ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Illustration in a 12th-century homiliary showing a self-portrait of the female scribe and illuminator Guda (image via Nature) The researchers analyzed colophons — short mentions found in ...