The evidence that medieval PEASANTS could READ! Medieval Misconceptions

There is a wealth of evidence indicating that many Medieval Peasants could in fact read and in this video I present some of that evidence to you.

Sources:
Studying Medieval Urban Literacy, A Provisional State of Affairs. 2013:
https://medievalliteracy.wp.hum.uu.nl...
Literacy, reading, and writing in the medieval West:
https://web.archive.org/web/201304121...
Birchbark letters:
https://www.medievalists.net/2018/08/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_b...
Middle English literature:
https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_ME_Writ...
A decent summery article:
http://medievalcolloquium.sewanee.edu...

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