Recognising Female Authors and Scribes
This International Women's Day, we'd like to recognise the female authors, scribes, artists, patrons, mothers, widows, daughters, sisters, whose manuscripts and documents have survived to this day. Get inspired by the stories of Fredescendis, Isabel de Bolebec, Joan Ward, and more.
Medieval Manuscripts
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This #InternationalWomensDay, we'd like to recognise the female authors, scribes, artists, patrons, mothers, widows, daughters, sisters, whose manuscripts & documents have survived to this day.
— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 8, 2023
We've been digitising over 300 of these books 👇https://t.co/qdXq9vSgoj
Here goes: pic.twitter.com/hXEFicV83z -
A small selection:
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Fredescendis, abbess of Maubeuge; Isabel de Bolebec; Joan Ward; Isabella, daughter of Edward III; Eleanor of Castile; Sibylla Frances; Eustacia Basset; Isabella of Portugal; Sybilla of Kaversfeld; Gunnilda atte Denne; Elizabeth Woodville; Margaret of France ... -
Katherine Cook; Adeliza of Louvain; Empress Matilda; Gonnora; Violante of Aragon; Joanna Lane; Margaret Hervy of Ryburgh; Emota Newton; Lady Katherine Sinclair; Agnes Martin, Merchant of the Staple of Calais; Beatrice; Margery Loqmer; Ippolita Maria Sforza; Angela da Foligno ...
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Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud; Elynour Rummyng; Rose Lok; Elizabeth Hickman; Stixwould Priory; Muriel; Agnes Sowle; Joan of Arc; Schmerlenbach Abbey; Elizabeth Mautyme, Lady Fast Castle; Dorothy, abbess of the Poor Clares without Aldgate; Rohais, countess of Lincoln; Liece ...
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Hildegard von Bingen; Margery de Crek; Catherine of Siena; Christine de Pizan; Birgitta of Sweden; Coldstream Priory; Margery de Crek; Jane Lumley; Princess Mary; Julian of Norwich; Matilda, countess of Chester; Flixton Priory; Graciolla de Leucatis; Paxina and Zuliana ...
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Tomasina de Crepilis; Catherine Schakersdale; Margery and Anna Dicks; Elizabeth Vachell; Joan Astley, nurse of Henry VI; Claude de France; Anne de Bretagne; Petronilla de Narford; Dorothy Comberford, abbess of the Minoresses of St Clare without Aldgate; Dulcissa; Agnes Fearne.
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We are immensely to Joanna and Graham Barker for funding Medieval and Renaissance Women, and to all the conservators, imaging technicians, cataloguers and other staff who have made this possible.https://t.co/qdXq9vSgoj#InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/iCflNd6BFj
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PS a full list will be published once everything is online. Check out Digitised Manuscripts in the meantime (search under the names listed above) and our Medieval Manuscripts Blog.https://t.co/XLAvP1BfX1https://t.co/eXegMw6y8K
— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 8, 2023