The book Education of the Laity in the Early Middle Ages was written by author Patrick Joseph Mccormick Here you can read free online of Education of the Laity in the Early Middle Ages book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Education of the Laity in the Early Middle Ages a good or bad book?
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We are told that they, following the royal example, turned to books and cultivated the art of reading. ' ' So that in a marvel- lous manner nearly all of the earls, the bailiffs and thanes who had been illiterate from infancy, studied the art of grammar, choosing rather to acquire an unaccustomed learning than to resign their office and power. But if any of them could not get on in his study of literature through age or the stupidity of an unused intellect, he ordered his son if he had one, or ...other near relation, or if there was no one else his freeman or slave, whom he had long before advanced to reading, to read aloud Saxon books to him, day and night, whenever he had leave. And they would lament in the recesses of their minds, that in their youth they had not devoted themselves to such studies. They counted the youth of this time happy in being able to learn the liberal arts, and themselves unhappy in that they had not learnt these things in their youth, and that in 76 "Ethelwald, omnibus junior, ludis literariae disciplinae, divino consilio et admirabili regis providentia, cum omnibus pene totius regionis nobilibus infantibus et etiam multis ignobilibus, sub diligenti magistrorum cura tra- ditus est.
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