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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And you're trying to tell me people knew more about music and were more educated musically in the year 800? Fuck
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I mean who even gets to be a “student” in 800?
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Completely orthogonal to the discussion here so not to be taken as a point in there, but what do you mean with immense privilege? The position of a Kantor was for sure not one of the top 10 jobs of the time AFAIK
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Iirc Bach could not even marry the time he would have liked as his job wasn't good enough
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