Female Medieval Scribes: A True Story

Send us Fan Mail We love a good story, don’t we? Especially a historical one, filled with towering figures and grand narratives. We picture monks toiling away in dimly lit scriptoria, their quills scratching across parchment, preserving knowledge for future generations. It's a romantic image, steeped in a certain kind of masculine mystique. But what if that picture is incomplete? What if a significant part of that story has been deliberately, or perhaps simply conveniently, overlooked? The tr...