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There were books, but most were in the libraries of monasteries or convents during most of the Middle Ages.
I have read that only 10% of the people could read, and they were all clergy. While 10% of the population may have been priests, monks, or nuns, and most of them could read, a surprising number of other people could read as well. You can see this from the amount of secular literature that survived in vernacular languages (the Church used Latin, in Western Europe, and Greek in the East). Beowulf was in Anglo-Saxon, as was the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There were a large number of poets, such as Christine de Pizan, who wrote love poetry for hire and employed her own copyists. Margery Kemp, a middle class wife and mother, wrote her autobiography in English. Chaucer wrote in English and Dante in Italian. There was no point in writing all this, if no one could read.
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∙ 10y agoonly the richer people could read because they could afford a tutor to teach them .
It was often the case that even richer people couldn't read, only clergy.
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What are the refferences for medieval education?
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