Podcast - Episode 26: 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: 
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.