So the thing about this tweet that everyone keeps sending me is that both it and the replies are wrong in these super boring and nuanced ways so it isn't even fun to dunk on because it is full. So I will give some highlights and then go for a Sunday jaunt.https://twitter.com/johnpauldickson/status/1278997229068406789 …
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I mean the average student at York would be at the Cathedral school and would likely have two, possibly three languages. They would have middle English, Latin, and maybe in York some kind of Danish or possibly French. Plenty of students speak that many languages now.
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I think, perhaps, miladdo is referring to contemporary students in the anglophone world who are notoriously not taught languages early enough. Ask a Czech student how many languages they speak. A Moroccan one. A Vietnamese one. The answer may surprise this dude!
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Second the knowledge that people were learning on the trivium and quadrivium was fundamentally different to the way that we approach those subjects now. "The reading music" bit is telling, because what students of the trivium and quadrivium were learning was conceptual.
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Could they read music? Sure! But they weren't there to learn to play the fucking lute. They were studying the concept of music. Also they didn't have polyphony yet, so it's a whole different kettle of fish to what we learn now.
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Musical notation didn’t exist at this stage and it is unlikely they knew Greek notation. So even that is not comparable.
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