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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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My illuminating theory about a lovesick monk

Medieval scribe writing at a desk
An illustration showing a medieval scribe working on a manuscript. Photograph: North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy

So the theory is that a woman called Eadburg repeatedly scratched her name, almost invisibly, in the margins of an ancient religious text (Woman’s name and tiny sketches found in 1,300-year-old medieval text, 28 November)?

The PhD student who found the names is quoted as saying “I don’t know why you would write somebody else’s name so many times like that”.

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