[HN Gopher] The art of reading in the Middle Ages
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       The art of reading in the Middle Ages
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-11-30 07:48 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | wolverine876 wrote:
       | Ben - I miss _The Appendix_!
       | 
       | Thanks for posting this article. Who wrote it? I don't see a
       | byline. (EDIT: https://www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitions/the-art-
       | of-reading-i... )
        
       | nescioquid wrote:
       | Treating literacy as a continuum rather than a binary capability
       | is good, but I don't know if citing Einhardt's biography of
       | Charlemagne is the most solid way to do that: the blandishments
       | are so deep it registers as a tall tale. If I recall, the claim
       | Einhardt was making was maybe greater -- that Charlemagne
       | understood and could read _Latin_ perfectly well. I 'm uncertain
       | what the situation for written vernacular language was at that
       | time.
       | 
       | I also have to mention that it was the Carolingian renaissance
       | that introduced orthographic reforms like spaces between words,
       | readable fonts, and punctuation. It was also after these reforms
       | that silent reading became normalized (I think these things are
       | possibly related).
        
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