This was a superb program. Prof Chandler does an excellent job explaining Charlemagne's central role in establishing institutions that got the best of Roman institutions across the line to the proto-modern institutions of Western civilization.
He was an advocate of education and spent on it. Also, while he struggled with reading and writing, he learned languages and, more importantly, explore just what literacy was at the time. People - many of them quite ordinary but of high character - were witnesses who could recite verbatim what was declared or deeded many decades before, but could neither read nor write. Still, that's literacy.
This was a superb program. Prof Chandler does an excellent job explaining Charlemagne's central role in establishing institutions that got the best of Roman institutions across the line to the proto-modern institutions of Western civilization.
Thank you so much, loved it 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Interesting and fun! Thank you
Why didn't the Frankish kings put a value on literacy? As Charlamagne was illiterate.
He was an advocate of education and spent on it. Also, while he struggled with reading and writing, he learned languages and, more importantly, explore just what literacy was at the time. People - many of them quite ordinary but of high character - were witnesses who could recite verbatim what was declared or deeded many decades before, but could neither read nor write. Still, that's literacy.