The Copyist's Rebellion
The scriptorium was cold in winter. This was not a complaint but a statement of fact: the stone walls of St. Augustine's Abbey, near Beauvais in northern France, conducted the cold from the earth with an efficiency that no amount of parchment-lined insulation could fully resist. Thomas Ashcroft knew this the way a musician knows the tuning of his instrument—a constant, background awareness that...
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