and monks and priests did do some amount of educating the peasantry

of course there would be no purpose in peasants knowing how to read

books didnt exist

for most people

Learning to read and write just by existing isn't hard

well no

the printing press wasnt invented till the end of the middle ages

most peasants were bound to the land

I said peasents COULD

priests fleeced the peasents for money. end of story

read

Potato press

Duh

and services were always conducted in a foreign language

Also papyrus

they couldnt read LATIN, thats why they were iliterate

most languages in the middle ages didnt even have written languages

lol

...

The printing press was just mass reproduction

LoL indeed.

you think the serbian peasants could read?

the russian peasants?

Pre-printing press there were still educational reading materials manufactured in the form of keratin-laminated fabrics mounted on mirrorlike handles

the nordic ones?

polish?

etc.

No but the aristocrats

And servants of lords

Priests fleeced money. simple.

Yes

none of these lnguages had written language

Oh and the clergy

Did they need?

they literally *couldnt* know how to read and write

because there was *no reading or writing in their language*

💤

What period we talking about lmao

Runes were also a thing

Texts have existed since mesopotamia

runes arent really a means of reading an writing