For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our perception of scholarship in the Middle Ages. But what about the women? A ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling ...

However, long held assumptions that it was only men who did this kind of work are finally being challenged thanks to new research into the previously ignored role of women scribes. The paper ...