Not necessarily, not many people even rich people were literate a king might have had an adviser to read for him.
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Medieval kings are people who lived during the middle ages and were given the title and powers of a king.
During the middle ages serfs worked for their lords and that is who protected them.
If you want to pick a medieval king, you might try Charlemagne or William the Conqueror. There were lots of kings during the Middle Ages. We probably do not even have an accurate count of the number of kingdoms, but there were many of them. Add to that the fact that the Middle Ages lasted a thousand years, and you might have well over a thousand kings. Some kings are so obscure we do not even know their names.
The Jews maintained a high level of literacy during the Middle Ages, and had their own schools, with the goal being universal education. These schools were informally constituted, and were more like home schooling than state run schools of today. The European Jewish community made great contributions in philosophy during the Middle Ages, probably out of proportion to any other group of people.
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Medieval kings are people who lived during the middle ages and were given the title and powers of a king.
middle ages
the kings crusade was the 3rd Crusade.
During the middle ages serfs worked for their lords and that is who protected them.
Catholicism.
If you want to pick a medieval king, you might try Charlemagne or William the Conqueror. There were lots of kings during the Middle Ages. We probably do not even have an accurate count of the number of kingdoms, but there were many of them. Add to that the fact that the Middle Ages lasted a thousand years, and you might have well over a thousand kings. Some kings are so obscure we do not even know their names.
franks is a beggar in the middle ages he was fighting with the kings for food and water ...............
The Jews maintained a high level of literacy during the Middle Ages, and had their own schools, with the goal being universal education. These schools were informally constituted, and were more like home schooling than state run schools of today. The European Jewish community made great contributions in philosophy during the Middle Ages, probably out of proportion to any other group of people.
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Manuscripts were read by literate people, of course. What a lot of people don't know is that there were a lot of literate people in the Middle Ages. In fact there were parts of Europe where the majority of people might have been literate, such as the Byzantine Empire, where there was primary education at the village level for boys and girls for the entire time of the Middle Ages.
They were all powerful in their domain.