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'It’s an extremely sexy story': How the legendary tale of 'rebel' saint Mary of Egypt became a medieval blockbuster
it became the medieval equivalent of a blockbuster, copied multiple times and translated into Old Norse, Welsh, Irish and ...
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Why medieval monks loved their gadgets just as much as we do
Forget all the myths you’ve heard about the Dark Ages: medieval scholars didn’t think ... instruments that these men – many of them monks – used to explore the universe around them.
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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...