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There would have been far fewer students, Church notwithstanding?
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There would have been no students without the church.
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Wouldn't someone able to be a student at 18 years old in AD 800 also be from the upper classes? I'd guess the average 18 year old now is in a vastly better educational position than the average across all 18 year olds in AD 800?
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Just a little light on female students perhaps?
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Light, yes, but there is excellent evidence that they accepted female students - both from Alcuin's letters and from rulings of Hincmar, the archbishop of Rheims.
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Slightly misleading, not wilfully so, I’m sure. What percentage of 18-year-olds in 800AD were students? V few, I’d guess. I’d imagine most 18-year-olds then would have been illiterate.
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A small percentage. But I’d those that were students—rich or poor—were better educated than we are.
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I suspect a student in 800AD knew more of the things that, by 800AD, had been invented. But less of the things that hadn't. They would have studied Latin and Greek, rhetoric and logic. But they would know very little about maths, their 'astronomy' would largely be spurious....
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... their knowledge of music would bear little resemblance to anything that we have today, and almost all of the sciences and humanities would be a closed book to them.
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