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What‘s the difference between an Author and a Scribe?
Scribes were key players in the recording and preservation of knowledge in the medieval period. But who were they? What did they do and how did they live? What distinguishes a scribe from an author, and what professions most closely resemble the role of the medieval scribe today? Find out this week on the Les Enluminures podcast.
Resources:
The Medieval Scribe and the Art of Writing: https://ultimatehistoryproject.com/the-medieval-scribe.html
Books:
Timothy O’Neill, The Irish Hand: Scribes and Their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century With an Exemplar of Irish Scripts: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/irish-hand-scribes-manuscripts-earliest/author/oneill-timothy/
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Winter 1998). "Girls Trained in Beautiful Writing: Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 6 (4): 629–646.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/%22Girls-Trained-in-Beautiful-Writing%22%3A-Female-in-and-Haines-Eitzen/cefcea8a9161c6b61cf12f0f2659780448816f53
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Scribes were key players in the recording and preservation of knowledge in the medieval period. But who were they? What did they do and how did they live? What distinguishes a scribe from an author, and what professions most closely resemble the role of the medieval scribe today? Find out this week on the Les Enluminures podcast.
Resources:
The Medieval Scribe and the Art of Writing: https://ultimatehistoryproject.com/the-medieval-scribe.html
Books:
Timothy O’Neill, The Irish Hand: Scribes and Their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century With an Exemplar of Irish Scripts: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/irish-hand-scribes-manuscripts-earliest/author/oneill-timothy/
Kim Haines-Eitzen (Winter 1998). "Girls Trained in Beautiful Writing: Female Scribes in Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 6 (4): 629–646.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/%22Girls-Trained-in-Beautiful-Writing%22%3A-Female-in-and-Haines-Eitzen/cefcea8a9161c6b61cf12f0f2659780448816f53