Thesis: the average 18 year old student in, say, York in AD 800 (the middle of the so-called "Dark Ages") had read more, knew more languages, was better trained in logic, could read more music, knew more mathematics and astronomy than the average student from a university today.
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If the knowledge of Greek was so widespread, the Medicis would not have had to seek out refugee scholars from the just-fallen Byzantium to teach it to their kids/translate ancient sources for them. And that was in the 1400s, mind, not the 800s.
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There were very few people who would know Greek, it was not something everyone learned. It happened, but it was considered a specialist skill. As was medieval astronomy. Not everyone was good at computus (which was what it was called).
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