Pola of Rome: The Remarkable Story of a Medieval Jewish Scribe

Pola of Rome: The Remarkable Story of a Medieval Jewish Scribe

Pola of Rome defied expectations in more ways than one: not only was she a professional scribe in the late thirteenth century, she was a Jewish woman working in a field dominated by male Christian clerics. Her surviving colophons offer a rare glimpse into the intellectual life, family networks, and self-perception of a medieval woman who made her living through the written word.