Of Bookish Things<p>Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Manuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manuscripts</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalBooks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalScribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalScribes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalWomen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalManuscripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalManuscripts</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Women_Scribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women_Scribes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MedievalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedievalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Between400And1500CE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Between400And1500CE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-played-a-more-important-role-in-copying-medieval-manuscripts-than-previously-thought-180986294/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">women-played-a-more-important-role-in-copying-medieval-manuscripts-than-previously-thought-180986294/</span></a></p>