scribes

• “Latin remained the language of religious men, whereas religious women and the laity of both sexes embraced the vernacular although not exclusively. 7 Letters and other documents from officials of the Order to its nuns continued to be written in Latin. 8 Latin, often described as a gendered language, became even more gendered. 9 When the nuns of St. Katharine compiled their cadastral register in 1309, the document and the colophon identifying its female nun/scribe were in the vernacular. 10 In their anniversary book from 1354, the colophon by the scribes is also in the vernacular, but it is followed by a Latin notice by Johann of Constance, sacerdotus. 11 However, there is a difference between documents of practice that recorded the economic aspect of Dominican life, and documents of spirituality that inform us about their religious and devotional practices and behaviors.”

  Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany

• “Indeed, the first original of the word scribes did more peculiarly signify the numberers.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “Much indeed is there to be said about such a distinguished art, but it is enough to mention the fact that those men are called scribes (librarii) who serve zealously the just scales (libra) of the Lord.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Early Middle Ages 500-1000

• “Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “One of those puzzled scribes is Sanger, who scratches his head in today’s piece about Kerry’s “nuanced explanation.””

  August 2004

• “Citizens also had to pay a tax on cooking oil, and tax collectors known as scribes searched homes for used oil, trying to make sure that everyone was using new cooking oil — and thus paying the tax.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Infernal Revenue: Unusual taxes in history

• “The reason six words works so well as a prompt to define your life, hone your company's mission, or just make sense of your day or, in the case of so many of our passionate six-word scribes at SMITH Teens, every hour of your day, is because anyone can do it.”

  The Huffington Post: Larry Smith: Long Story Short: Six Words on Coming Home From War

• “The Protestant rebellion against Catholic theocracy rose and racked Europe in a way that could never have happened if the limited scribblings of the scribes were the only way Europeans could talk to each other.”

  Johann Hari: Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?

• “And, with no apology to those scribes, that is impossible.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “Did not Christ revile when (Mt 23) he called the scribes and pharisees hypocrites, murderers, serpents, a generation of vipers, and even more severely rebuked them? ”

  Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

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