Middle Ages

Middle Ages (400 A.D to thousand years)

Communication was greatly influenced by Christianity, church leaders could read and write and most books dealt with religious themes and therefore only few ordinary people could read and write. “Scribes” who were monks, copied books by hand and decorated them in gold and silver as well a other colours. They used to copy for months and months and strange though as it may appear some of then could not read or write! News were spread by word of mouth. Town criers announced deaths, marriages and births; and entertainers went from town to town carrying messages.

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