Asakiyume mita

I should not have said print. I am conflating several facts. Books written, bound, copied, distributed primarily by men before the printing press, and print after. Women's work was passed from hand to hand, apparently. Some thousands of these manuscripts have survived, but no one ever thought to translate them until recently, and they have proved to be rich in observations about medieval life, by the nuns who were on the ground, to to speak, in what social services existed. A great deal of these writings are of course ecclesiastical in nature, but not all.