ABSTRACT
Some medieval studies scholarship has foregrounded perceived shortcomings in scribal hands as well as mistakes in the Latin of a constellation of texts and books from late seventh- and early eighth-century English foundations. These assessments have diverted scholarly attention from these otherwise revealing works. By recentering these textual artifacts by means of historical, literary, paleographical, and documentary research, the Frankish influence on early English religion and learning can be recovered, and at least one extant manuscript may be ascribed to a nun’s hand: an early eighth-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Synonyma written by an anonymous nun in the monastery at Bath.
