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A professor has published a book about women's writing during the Middle Ages. The encyclopedia has 340 entries about women writers, transcribers and patrons amongst others. They cover different continents. The author states that for too long women's voices have been dismissed or even erased from literary history. https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/new-encyclopedia-highlights-medieval-womens-writing-around-the-world/
New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World - Medievalists.net

A major new reference work is aiming to reshape how medieval literature is taught and studied, by putting women’s writing—across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia—at the centre of the story

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