A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
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Medieval Female Scribes Were Far More Common Than Previously Thought. At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by WomenThe vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...
Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...
because it dispels a lot of the negative stereotypes that we have heard about the Middle Ages, and how medieval Europeans only have negative perceptions of women, particularly women with darker skin.
On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world ...
Folklore, spectacle, entertainment, parades and other fiery parades... Village fetes are the stuff of imagination, bringing ...
The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all.
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Wicklow history buffs to get talks on St John of Jerusalem and Grangegorman PrisonWicklow history-buffs have a treat in store with two separate talks taking place in Wicklow town and Roundwood.
The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...
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