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On 10 Jan 01, at 1:31, Johannes Schmidt III wrote:
> You exaggerate. Paper and ink (or charcoal, or pencil lead) was
> relatively cheap, especially by the 18th and 19th centuries. Popular
> novels, children's books, poetry, private letters, all were flowing
> around the globe but
-Caveat Lector-
>As far as the oral tradition being more prominent than written
>documents, here's 2 things to consider:
>
>1. Women were (and outside the Western world, still are) often
>illiterate, and oral tradition was the only way for them to transmit
>knowledge.
The vast majority of humani
-Caveat Lector-
As far as the oral tradition being more prominent than written
documents, here's 2 things to consider:
1. Women were (and outside the Western world, still are) often
illiterate, and oral tradition was the only way for them to transmit
knowledge.
2. Until the 20th century, paper
