Women contributed much to the production of the medieval manuscript. A task delegated to monks rather than previously thought – according to a new study.
At least 110,000 handwritten hand-written manuscripts created by hand-written manuscripts among women by women, claims a study published by more than previously Nature months before this month. This representation only accounts for about 1.1% of 10 million manuscripts produced in that period, researchers at Bergen University in Norway, the discoveries are the enclaves of women who have not yet been identified.
Researchers analyzed CLONFS: scribe, commissioners received short references found in medieval manuscripts.
“Studies particularly 15. It highlights the important contribution of scribbles in the literary culture of literary culture and many surviving manuscripts were products in women’s communities” Hyperalergic in an email.
Researchers examined 23,774 wildcombs from a Benedictine catalog and in the Middle Ages, they specified 110,000 handled handouts written by women, they had to last 8,000. Women worked scribos in both religious settings and “workshops”, according to previous research.
“Women are remarkable examples through very well-known women’s research. This study provides statistical support for frequent contributions for women’s scribos,” said Ommundsen.
Women’s writers were identified so that some of them included feminine pronouns or more specific biographical descriptions. The researchers read a Latin manuscript, in Monastery Munkeliv’s Monkeliv, Birgitta Sigfurs, wrote with beginnings, even as I didn’t.
Another dye examined in the study had a portrait of a woman, which looks like a nun. The introduction of women’s illustrations among information information suggests mostly female authorship.
“Our research provides evidence during the Middle Ages with small women’s scribes, but constant,” the authors wrote.
Some manuscripts have no more than a woman’s scribe and no collaboration with men.
While some women had fully identified scribos, the researchers say others can say that others to hide the gender, suggesting that some of them could be even more. In cases where men were registered only from the end of the graduated manuscript, women writers have written their names in margins.
