(June 19, 2016 at 3:41 pm)abaris Wrote: Min, have you by any chance read the letters from Vindolanda? It's not only the architacture and contraptions that make them seem close to us, but also their thoughts and how they communicated. It's much closer to us than anything i read from the middle ages.
Is that because of the comparatively high degree of literacy in the Roman army compared to any common segment of the Middle Ages, which facilitated the extensive and casual use of writing for mundane daily purposes in a way familiar to us?
