[MR] In need of a little help

[Joe Shaffer]

Have you tried emailing the author?

-Gawin

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Eric Campbell <solvarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found a reference to a paper on this in Italy during the same time
> period.
>
> Generative Collaborations: Nuns’ Book Production in Renaissance and
> Early Modern Italy
> Melissa Moreton, University of Iowa
>
> http://scholarworks.umass.edu/berksconference/Workshops/178/12/
>
> I do not have access to this site unfortunately, i wish I knew someone
> at Umass.
> -Solvarr
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Karen <karen_larsdatter at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Daniella asked:
> >> Does anyone know of any documentation that shows women as
> >> scribes during the Renaissance?  Specifically for England during
> >> the time period of Henry VIII?
> >
> > There's several scribes (and authors & poets depicted in the midst of
> writing their works) at
> > http://larsdatter.com/scribaltools.htm
> >
> > I don't think there are any female scribes specifically from early 16th
> century England in there, but there's a couple of works from around that
> time period that might be useful -- check out the Magdalene at her
> writing-desk, and "A Girl Writing," too.  One of the images of the signboard
> of the schoolmaster Myconius includes a female writing instructor.
> >
> > (There's also the women in Ovid's Heroides [BNF Fr. 873], but I don't
> know if they're too early or too fantastical for what you're looking for.)
> >
> >
> > Karen Larsdatter
> > www.larsdatter.com
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Joseph J. Shaffer
Graduate Student - Belger Lab
Curriculum in Neurobiology
University of North Carolina
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