08-11-2021, 05:59 PM
(06-11-2021, 01:33 PM)MichelleL11 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-11-2021, 11:54 AM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Here is a blog post by Monica Valentinelli titled "Why I Believe the Voynich Manuscript was Created by a Woman". As far as can be seen, she bases her thesis on social circumstances in the Italian Renaissance (?).
I don't think the author(s) of the Voynich were women, because I have my own specific ideas about who the author(s) were.
However setting my own authorship theory aside I suppose one can ask the question as to what percentage of manuscripts from that time were written by women? And what percentage of manuscripts of that kind were written by women at that time? I don't know the answers to these questions, but I suspect it was quite rare for manuscripts of that kind to be written by women at that time. This, of course, does not make it impossible that it was written by women, just that without very good reasons to believe it was written by women, it is unlikely.