Medieval manuscripts blog
The Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog is written by curators in the British Library's Department of History and Classics.
- Based in United Kingdom
- Roughly two posts per week
- First post on
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| Dec 2022 | 4 |
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| Feb 2023 | 11 |
| Mar 2023 | 10 |
| Apr 2023 | 8 |
| May 2023 | 6 |
| Jun 2023 | 0 |
| Jul 2023 | 1 |
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| Oct 2023 | 4 |
| Nov 2023 | 0 |
| Dec 2023 | 1 |
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| Jul 2024 | 3 |
| Aug 2024 | 2 |
| Sep 2024 | 2 |
| Oct 2024 | 9 |
| Nov 2024 | 7 |
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Most recent posts
Many of the manuscripts on display in our exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words portray medieval nuns as holy creatures, devoting themselves to prayer, contemplation and good works. Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century guide for …
On 8 July 1458, Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488) completed work on a manuscript, a handwritten copy of Cicero’s Latin treatise De senectute (On Old Age), which she made for her tutor, the …
In our major exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, we find evidence of women undertaking a wide variety of roles across all levels of society. While many women had to do unpaid household chores, …