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My first thought was that she was writing on paper on top of the manuscripts. No way anyone would scribble on those, even back then they were too valuable and precious.

homework and practice does

This looks exactly like my 6 year old daughter's drawings and she also writes her name on everything. These aren't primitive 75000 year old cave drawings, that sketch says young child to me.

Education doesn't happen in journals

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But they still do need to learn their name at some point. It's almost like we are seeing a tiny fragment of what someone did in their life and shouldn't expect to see all of their education just because they also learned other things, if this is what happened.

And they were likely taught to write more than their name........

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Came here to say the same thing. And I bet the doodle is Eadburg denying the writer’s advances.

I wonder if academics will analyze and interpret our memes like this 1300 years from now.

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..."even when she was with child."

Writing a woman’s name tens (probably hundreds) of times including nicknames is considered “clear evidence” of a female writing by historians? When do people write their own name over and over including variants when reading religious texts? These “historians” need their PhDs checked.

...I mean rich educated children existed back then.

Bizzare that isn't mentioned, the drawing is described as outstretched arms too, it sounds exactly like a scribe with a crush who is bored at work.

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Then it wasn't a peasant. Having access to pen and paper tells us that much

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Also this…1/5 of a human hair thick indentations from a dry stylus…seems more like someone was doodling on a paper sitting on top of the book they were supposed to be reading. Why would you write something at all that can’t be detected without 21st century technology? No offense to these pros but their conclusions seem ridiculous

This such an interesting report. Thanks OP for putting it in front of me. So many questions.

It only needed one person to do this, though.

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That was my first thought, too. Romance is a big thing for a lot of people and a young person in love would absolutely do something like this lol.

Sadly not during that time period. Most peasant kids (and adults) never learned to read or write. Education was a privilege for the relatively well off up until fairly recently (late 19th / early 20th century).