RIP medieval scriptoria you would have loved jimothy
July 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM
RIP medieval scriptoria you would have loved jimothy
Vous voulez être sûrs de lire des livres écrits par des vrais humains ?
Facile, revenons aux moines copistes et aux scriptoria. Bon ok votre livre de poche vous coûtera 24 000 euros, mais AU MOINS ce sera du 100% humain.
#lasolutiondumedieviste
Facile, revenons aux moines copistes et aux scriptoria. Bon ok votre livre de poche vous coûtera 24 000 euros, mais AU MOINS ce sera du 100% humain.
#lasolutiondumedieviste
September 27, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Vous voulez être sûrs de lire des livres écrits par des vrais humains ?
Facile, revenons aux moines copistes et aux scriptoria. Bon ok votre livre de poche vous coûtera 24 000 euros, mais AU MOINS ce sera du 100% humain.
#lasolutiondumedieviste
Facile, revenons aux moines copistes et aux scriptoria. Bon ok votre livre de poche vous coûtera 24 000 euros, mais AU MOINS ce sera du 100% humain.
#lasolutiondumedieviste
Certes, c'est peu. Mais cela permet une conclusion intéressante : 1% de 10 millions = 100 000. Or on ne connaît qu'une poignée de scriptoria féminins, pas assez pour copier 100 000 textes.
Conclusion : il y avait plus de scriptoria féminins que ce qu'on connaît pour l'instant !
Conclusion : il y avait plus de scriptoria féminins que ce qu'on connaît pour l'instant !
May 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Certes, c'est peu. Mais cela permet une conclusion intéressante : 1% de 10 millions = 100 000. Or on ne connaît qu'une poignée de scriptoria féminins, pas assez pour copier 100 000 textes.
Conclusion : il y avait plus de scriptoria féminins que ce qu'on connaît pour l'instant !
Conclusion : il y avait plus de scriptoria féminins que ce qu'on connaît pour l'instant !
Au Moyen Âge, les textes étaient écrits... à la main. Copiés, laborieusement, par des scribes, le plus souvent dans de grands scriptoria dans des monastères.
Et certains de ces copistes étaient des femmes. Mais... combien ?
Un fil ⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky
Et certains de ces copistes étaient des femmes. Mais... combien ?
Un fil ⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky
May 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Au Moyen Âge, les textes étaient écrits... à la main. Copiés, laborieusement, par des scribes, le plus souvent dans de grands scriptoria dans des monastères.
Et certains de ces copistes étaient des femmes. Mais... combien ?
Un fil ⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky
Et certains de ces copistes étaient des femmes. Mais... combien ?
Un fil ⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky
PARCHMENT. VELLUM. ANIMAL HIDE. FOR MILLENNIA IT HAD BEEN THE CHOICE METHOD OF RECORD THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTORIA OF THE IMPERIUM. FAR MORE DURABLE THAN PAPER, CHEAPER THAN CRYSTAL-PLATE OR DATASLAB, LESS IDEOLOGICALLY SUSPECT THAN COGITATOR-WAFER AND HARDER TO TAMPER WITH THAN-
August 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
PARCHMENT. VELLUM. ANIMAL HIDE. FOR MILLENNIA IT HAD BEEN THE CHOICE METHOD OF RECORD THROUGHOUT THE SCRIPTORIA OF THE IMPERIUM. FAR MORE DURABLE THAN PAPER, CHEAPER THAN CRYSTAL-PLATE OR DATASLAB, LESS IDEOLOGICALLY SUSPECT THAN COGITATOR-WAFER AND HARDER TO TAMPER WITH THAN-
In the scriptoria, the Accessibility Monks inscribed ALT TEXT PLEASE beneath every image of a sandwich. Nearby, the AI Heretics waged an endless holy war over machine-made art, most of them wearing machine-made faces.
September 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
In the scriptoria, the Accessibility Monks inscribed ALT TEXT PLEASE beneath every image of a sandwich. Nearby, the AI Heretics waged an endless holy war over machine-made art, most of them wearing machine-made faces.
XCI/CL del "Orbis Sensualium Pictus" de Iohannes Amos Comenius: "Ars scriptoria"
Buen día
Buen día
March 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
XCI/CL del "Orbis Sensualium Pictus" de Iohannes Amos Comenius: "Ars scriptoria"
Buen día
Buen día
Students these days can barely read in the dim candle light of scriptoria. Sloppy quill cutting abounds. This new "Humanist" hand has really dumbed them all down.
February 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Students these days can barely read in the dim candle light of scriptoria. Sloppy quill cutting abounds. This new "Humanist" hand has really dumbed them all down.
📚 Whispers of Wisdom takes you beyond the bookshelves—into ancient archives, candlelit scriptoria, and the beating heart of knowledge itself.
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
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#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
July 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
📚 Whispers of Wisdom takes you beyond the bookshelves—into ancient archives, candlelit scriptoria, and the beating heart of knowledge itself.
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
One thing I’ve learned from the Scriptorium book is that few monasteries actually had designated scriptoria. More commonly, scribes worked in the cloister, where they had access to light.
January 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
One thing I’ve learned from the Scriptorium book is that few monasteries actually had designated scriptoria. More commonly, scribes worked in the cloister, where they had access to light.
Techno feudalism, but without scriptoria.
Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true...
www.wired.com
May 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Techno feudalism, but without scriptoria.
3. 6th-8th c.: Establishment of monastic communities and associated scriptoria on the continent by Irish and Northumbrian missionaries -> development of regional and local minuscules. Drivers: societal (image: Luxeuil script)
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
3. 6th-8th c.: Establishment of monastic communities and associated scriptoria on the continent by Irish and Northumbrian missionaries -> development of regional and local minuscules. Drivers: societal (image: Luxeuil script)
Un ponte britannique de la discipline a proposé de travailler une question centrale : au Moyen Âge, dans les scriptoria, ils faisaient comment SANS CAFÉ ?
October 2, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Un ponte britannique de la discipline a proposé de travailler une question centrale : au Moyen Âge, dans les scriptoria, ils faisaient comment SANS CAFÉ ?
We need gay space monasteries, gay underwater scriptoria, and gay mushroom-farming shtetls
April 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
We need gay space monasteries, gay underwater scriptoria, and gay mushroom-farming shtetls
This new book by @saracharles.bsky.social on medieval scriptoria is an excellent resource I highly recommend. Here's something I knew was true for the Eastern Mediterranean, but apparently also in Western Europe "evidence for a physical writing room within a monastery is hard to find"!
November 12, 2024 at 9:57 AM
This new book by @saracharles.bsky.social on medieval scriptoria is an excellent resource I highly recommend. Here's something I knew was true for the Eastern Mediterranean, but apparently also in Western Europe "evidence for a physical writing room within a monastery is hard to find"!
If you want a full explanation you can read my forthcoming book "A Decade In Wülferhampton (Felt Like Much Longer)", from the Mead Hall Press and all good scriptoriums (?scriptoria?) price 39.99 groats
January 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you want a full explanation you can read my forthcoming book "A Decade In Wülferhampton (Felt Like Much Longer)", from the Mead Hall Press and all good scriptoriums (?scriptoria?) price 39.99 groats
Forgive me, I keep referring to my fictional monastery having a scriptorium, even though designated scriptoria were actually rare, mainly because it’s less wordy or confusing than the alternatives.
February 1, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Forgive me, I keep referring to my fictional monastery having a scriptorium, even though designated scriptoria were actually rare, mainly because it’s less wordy or confusing than the alternatives.
Anyone else feel there’s a hidden continuity between the Middle Ages and the Internet?
open.substack.com/pub/medieval...
open.substack.com/pub/medieval...
Illuminating Data: From Medieval Scriptoria to the Cyber-Saint
how sacred traditions meet digital devotion
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Anyone else feel there’s a hidden continuity between the Middle Ages and the Internet?
open.substack.com/pub/medieval...
open.substack.com/pub/medieval...
Jean-Luc Deuffic furthered the Breton corpus by publishing a proposed list of roughly 180 Breton manuscripts ('La production manuscrite des scriptoria bretons (VIIIe –IXe siècles').
(New York, MS De Ricci 115)
(New York, MS De Ricci 115)
September 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Jean-Luc Deuffic furthered the Breton corpus by publishing a proposed list of roughly 180 Breton manuscripts ('La production manuscrite des scriptoria bretons (VIIIe –IXe siècles').
(New York, MS De Ricci 115)
(New York, MS De Ricci 115)
Applications currently open for Scriptoria: forms.gle/UhfrgF8rGC9q...
LGBTQ+ fiction writing community for intermediate+ writers who are 25+. Made to specifically to accommodate neurodivergent needs
#sapphicseptember #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters #transwriters #writingcommunity #fictionwriters
LGBTQ+ fiction writing community for intermediate+ writers who are 25+. Made to specifically to accommodate neurodivergent needs
#sapphicseptember #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters #transwriters #writingcommunity #fictionwriters
September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Applications currently open for Scriptoria: forms.gle/UhfrgF8rGC9q...
LGBTQ+ fiction writing community for intermediate+ writers who are 25+. Made to specifically to accommodate neurodivergent needs
#sapphicseptember #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters #transwriters #writingcommunity #fictionwriters
LGBTQ+ fiction writing community for intermediate+ writers who are 25+. Made to specifically to accommodate neurodivergent needs
#sapphicseptember #queerwriters #lgbtqwriters #transwriters #writingcommunity #fictionwriters
🏺📚🗃️ Today's #Matriarcha writing temporal odysseys have touched down in the clay-tablet household archives of Kanesh/Kültepe, Anatolia c. 1800 BCE, and the parchment-scritching scriptoria of c. 7-800s CE Francia
May 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🏺📚🗃️ Today's #Matriarcha writing temporal odysseys have touched down in the clay-tablet household archives of Kanesh/Kültepe, Anatolia c. 1800 BCE, and the parchment-scritching scriptoria of c. 7-800s CE Francia
That all medieval manuscripts are produced in scriptoria by monks, and that all of them were heavily decorated and only for emperors and kings.
May 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
That all medieval manuscripts are produced in scriptoria by monks, and that all of them were heavily decorated and only for emperors and kings.
Apparently in monastic scriptoria there was a whole little production line of novices preparing pens, grinding pigments, scraping parchment, and keeping the scriptorium cat off the desks.
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Apparently in monastic scriptoria there was a whole little production line of novices preparing pens, grinding pigments, scraping parchment, and keeping the scriptorium cat off the desks.
📚 Whispers of Wisdom takes you beyond the bookshelves—into ancient archives, candlelit scriptoria, and the beating heart of knowledge itself.
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
January 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
📚 Whispers of Wisdom takes you beyond the bookshelves—into ancient archives, candlelit scriptoria, and the beating heart of knowledge itself.
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
🕰️ Travel through time with me in the history of libraries:
👉 buff.ly/y0cJZZP
#BookBlog #LibraryLove #Bibliophile #HistoryMatters
Civiltà calabro-greca Codice patmiaco 33 in lingua greca, redatto negli "scriptoria" basiliani a Reggio #Calabria nel 941 d.C. età bizantina. Con Omelie di San Giovanni Nazianzieno scritto dal monaco Nicola e figlio Daniele. Conservato a Patmos (Grecia).
#arte #Cultura #heritage #scriptorium
#arte #Cultura #heritage #scriptorium
April 26, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Civiltà calabro-greca Codice patmiaco 33 in lingua greca, redatto negli "scriptoria" basiliani a Reggio #Calabria nel 941 d.C. età bizantina. Con Omelie di San Giovanni Nazianzieno scritto dal monaco Nicola e figlio Daniele. Conservato a Patmos (Grecia).
#arte #Cultura #heritage #scriptorium
#arte #Cultura #heritage #scriptorium