New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

But one book that was quite popular from the 15th to 17th centuries ... some of the tens of thousands of people – almost all ...

Hidden under the label of "marble bust of a woman by an unknown artist", the 15th-century work has been lying in the store room in Levoca, eastern Slovakia, for decades, it said. Experts have now ...