but we know that too few people used to be literate. I couldn’t understand the need to disagree with this, i thought i misunderstood what you wrote.
but we know that too few people used to be literate. I couldn’t understand the need to disagree with this, i thought i misunderstood what you wrote.
FelipeFelop@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It’s actually a bit of an ‘urban myth’ it did apply in eg Victorian Times but at other points in history there was widespread literacy.
What you do find at some times is that an elite wrote and spoke one language but everyone else wrote another. Which was a way of controlling access to information. This is one reason that the Bible was in Latin and there was subterfuge needed to get the first Bible in English. (The pages were smuggled into the country)
merde@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
can you give some sources?
FelipeFelop@feddit.uk 11 months ago
www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item101093.html#:~:te….
merde@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
i can’t see how this supports your claim that literacy wasn’t uncommon 🤷