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In the Early Middle Ages or Dark Ages, the clergy were mostly literate. Most people who lived in the Byzantine Empire were probably literate because they ran a system of universal primary education there. Nearly all Jewish men and many Jewish women were literate. Nearly all Muslim men were literate. Administrators in parts of Europe where Roman law was still in use were literate, and this extended to Germanic law also by the end of the 8th century. Physicians were literate. There were a number of schools in Italy, not all of which were run by the Church. Charlemagne wanted to have general literacy in his Empire, and Alfred the Great did likewise in England; both of these monarchs had policies directed at widespread literacy in the vernacular languages.
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What did Dark Ages do?
it was the period of time when roman empire fall and they lost their literate people and science.
Were most kings literate during the middle ages?
Not necessarily, not many people even rich people were literate a king might have had an adviser to read for him.
Who invented the dark ages?
Who was the leader of the dark ages
Who labeled the Renaissance as dark ages?
The Renaissance was not labeled the "dark ages". Renaissance means "rebrith" and it came AFTER the "dark ages or the middle ages."
What is a another name for the Middle Ages?
Dark Ages and\or Medieval Ages
Who read the Medieval Manuscripts after they were written?
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.
Rome before the dark ages vs during the dark ages?
Before. Rome fell in 410 AD which started the "dark ages"
What are five chararistics of the dark ages?
dark ages, middle ages, medieval, feudal, age of faith.
What was the age known before the dark ages?
the age before the dark ages is the high middle ages
Did the greek dark ages begin in 1150?
The Greek Dark Ages began in about the year 1200 BC. There is no exact year for their beginning. Clearly, the Greek Dark Ages and the Dark Ages were not the same thing, and they were not really related, as the Dark Ages began in the middle of the 5th century AD.
What was the period of art and learning that began in the 1300s?
dark ages The Rennaisance is what you are talking about, as the dark ages was around 800-1000. == ==
Is dark ages capitalized?
yes, you mainly see the Dark Ages capitalized
