Early Modern Paleography and Women's Writing I - Transcribathon
While researching my first monograph, my primary sources were frequently published in print. Where I worked from manuscript, strong scholarly published transcriptions of the material were easily accessible. For the purposes of researching my new project on women's plague writing, however, with the myriad recipe books and diaries I work from, added to the fact that the majority of women's writing on plague across the genres appeared in manuscript, relying on transcriptions is