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In 2014, Lisa Davis transitioned to a role as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, a position riddled with irony considering the academy’s reluctance to engage with the Voynich Manuscript. This was a period when theories proliferated, suggesting wild ideas like extraterrestrial origins or vast conspiracies surrounding the text, often overshadowing its true historical context.

Davis’s journey of discovery took a more methodical approach. Rather than viewing the manuscript as a typical text to be deciphered linguistically, she focused on the craftsmanship behind it.