New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...
A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the 15th-Century Arma Christi at Bar Convent while cataloguing the religious ...
March is National Women’s History Month, and there are many things people do to commemorate that. During the Middle Ages in ...
Technically the term “illuminated,” refers to “medieval manuscripts decorated not only ... how Jewish scribes were to write the holy letters of the bible in Hebrew. The unusual way the ...
This richly illustrated book showcases the medieval fascination with magic through 20 illuminated manuscripts; including an astronomical companion made for Charlemagne’s son, The Sworn Book of ...