Two researchers are proposing a new reading of the Song of Wade, a once widely known epic from the 12th century, thanks to a ...

A mystery surrounding a lost poem or story referenced by Geoffrey Chaucer may have been solved after scientists corrected a 900-year-old typo.

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 most challenging part of studying Heege’s records, Wade confessed, was deciphering his handwriting. The discipline of studying old manuscripts is called paleography. “It is all the more difficult ...

Who was Eadburg? 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).

Marginalia Doodling in medieval books also brings us into the world of play as readers and scribes then, as now, surrendered themselves to the urge to interrupt empty spaces on the page.

Art History Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals More than 110,000 manuscripts were made by women, a far greater number than previously thought.

Although I can't offer you knowledge directly related to Medieval Scribes, I can offer you some tiny insight on the whole medieval monestary context, which I hope that it can be helpful for you ...

Libraries are full of unique and missing oddities from long lost letters to famous forgeries. A newly discovered record of live comedy performance in medieval England is yet another example of how ...

Marginalia Doodling in medieval books also brings us into the world of play as readers and scribes then, as now, surrendered themselves to the urge to interrupt empty spaces on the page.