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Dr C. M. Bromstick🧹, Dublin
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Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin

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Early Medieval historian: Ireland & Britain, kingship, landscapes, mentalities | knitting, video games, bread | ND | disabled | she/her | #BlackLivesMatter

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    1. David Fickling‏Verified account @davidfickling 4 Jul 2020
      Replying to @davidfickling @johnpauldickson

      Comparing an "average student" in Alcuin's York to an "average student" at a university today is like comparing the wealth of an "average prince" in 800AD to that of an average teenager now. Not a reasonable comparison, and tbh I think the modern students still come out on top.

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    2. David Fickling‏Verified account @davidfickling 4 Jul 2020
      Replying to @davidfickling @johnpauldickson

      I like the point you're making that we tend to underestimate the pockets of learning that existed in the "dark ages" but let's not over-egg it.

      1 reply 1 retweet 34 likes
    3. David Fickling‏Verified account @davidfickling 4 Jul 2020
      Replying to @davidfickling @johnpauldickson

      I've seen estimates that Alcuin's library had 140 books in it. My Kindle has 180 books on it!

      1 reply 2 retweets 39 likes
    4. David Fickling‏Verified account @davidfickling 4 Jul 2020
      Replying to @davidfickling @johnpauldickson

      I mean, English *kings* were considered learned if they were *literate* until after the Norman conquest. And these were not average people.

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    5. John Dickson‏Verified account @johnpauldickson 4 Jul 2020
      Replying to @davidfickling

      Alcuin alone provides evidence of over 70 classical authors, not including the vast works of Augustine, Jerome, and other Christian authors—studied in his school. Your estimates seem off. I doubt the average student today has read 50 books. And schools were not ONLY for elites!

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    6. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @johnpauldickson @davidfickling

      This is just embarassing. Students by the age of 18 have absolutely read more than 50 books.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    7. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @AdmiralHip @johnpauldickson @davidfickling

      Also, in any school/monastery people weren’t sitting around reading books. People read sections or copied out sections but I can guarantee that not everyone read through the libraries at monasteries.

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    8. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @AdmiralHip @johnpauldickson @davidfickling

      And to that point, it is unlikely that they all knew Latin AND Greek. Usually only a few learned Greek and it was considered a well-respected skill but not widespread among those who were educated.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Annabel Fielding‏ @DearestAnnabel 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @AdmiralHip @johnpauldickson @davidfickling

      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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    10. Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @DearestAnnabel @johnpauldickson @davidfickling

      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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      Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin‏ @AdmiralHip 5 Jul 2020
      Replying to @AdmiralHip @DearestAnnabel and

      Those who were, were highly praised for their knowledge.

      7:11 AM - 5 Jul 2020
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