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Question by nicole:

What kind of history did they teach during medieval times?

Not the history of medieval times, but the history of the history of it I guess.




Best answer:

Answer by A M Frantz
First, there was no public education in that era. The vast majority of people got no education, including learning to read and write.

For those few who were educated, most instruction was in Latin. They learned to read and write it, and learned history from the Bible, as well as studying lives of saints. Some had knowledge of Greek and Roman historical writing and literature, but such knowledge would have been very unusual before the Renaissance. Students of certain subjects such as medicine, law, astronomy, rhetoric, and mathematics were usually trained in the Greek and Roman works relevant to their specialties.

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