Friday, 24 January 2014

This Transforming Medieval Text Is Actually Six Books in One

This Transforming Medieval Text Is Actually Six Books in One
Jan 24th 2014, 21:20, by Andrew Tarantola

This Transforming Medieval Text Is Actually Six Books in One
With a literacy rate hovering around an estimated 5 to 10 percent of the population during the Middle Ages, only a select few of society's upper echelons and religious castes had use for books. So who would have use for a sextuplet of stories bound by a single, multi-hinged cover like this? Some seriously busy scholar.
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