Though actually, they taught the Latin psalter and primer to children in the household, so they did actually read Latin. Writing Latin is like doing taxes, if you are of a certain class, it's a manual labor that you can pay someone to do. Also, nuns, lots of Latin reading.
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Yes. Also female limners (artists). Thus, the artist of the infamous twitter meme and also marginalia drawings in the Roman de La Rose of the nuns plucking the penis tree, female artist: https://readingmedievalbooks.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/jeanne-de-montbaston-penis-trees-against-the-misogynists/ …
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