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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Replying to @wophugus @johnpauldickson
You’re not that wrong, there are plenty of cases in the manuscripts where it was pretty clear that errors were being made and subsequent scribes didn’t know they were errors and reproduced them. Not everyone in a monastery had the same level of knowledge as another.
4:40 AM - 5 Jul 2020
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