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It seems like that region had a particularly high literacy rate. Texts from all classes and genders were found. The kid could have been a peasant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novgorod_Republic#Literature_a...


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gunian01/17/2025

How likely is that vs works written by the rich folk survive? A cursory GPT search implies not a lot of medieval works written by poor people in general

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