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· 17 Apr 2022

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Education at the Middle Ages.

We have commented in class that in the Middle Ages a very high percentage of the population was illiterate. The people who knew how to read and write were clerics, that is, wise men, literate, with scholastic studies, even if they were not religious.

Education in the Middle Ages was initially provided in monastery schools and focused exclusively on those who were going to be part of the clergy. Logically, the knowledge they received was closely linked to the Church: they learned notions of liturgy, prayers and the Bible. It was fundamentally a memoristic teaching: students repeated what they had to learn until they memorized it. Many of them did not know how to read or write, yet they learned the basics by heart and that was enough.

Future priests did have to learn to write and read in Latin, which, as we know, was the language of culture and of the Catholic liturgy.


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