{"id":12266,"date":"2022-11-30T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:31:55","slug":"the-hand-of-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/30\/the-hand-of-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hand of Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A Woman\u2019s Name Uncovered in the Margins of a 1,200-Year-Old Medieval Manuscript Provides a Fresh Clue About Its Real Significance<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The discovery is a rare example of the involvement of women in medieval book culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Richard Whiddington<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 30. Photo: courtesy University of Leicester.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While studying a rare medieval manuscript in Oxford\u2019s Weston Library<\/a>, PhD student Jessica Hodgkinson noticed something unusual: a series of small, barely visible indentations at the bottom of page 18. Together, the marks spelled out the name Eadburg, the abbess of a female religious community in Kent during the 8th-century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inscriptions, which state-of-the-art 3D recording technology discovered a further 14 times in one form or another throughout the volume, is rare evidence of women in medieval England owning, using, or creating manuscripts. So began Hodgkinson\u2019s detective work into a highly educated woman who lived 1,200 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from artnet A Woman\u2019s Name Uncovered in the Margins of a 1,200-Year-Old Medieval Manuscript Provides a Fresh Clue About Its Real Significance The discovery is a rare example of the involvement of women in medieval book culture. by Richard Whiddington While studying a rare medieval manuscript in Oxford\u2019s Weston Library, PhD student Jessica Hodgkinson noticed something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}