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> I'm uncertain what the situation for written vernacular language was at that time. As far as I understand, spelling was standardized surprisingly recently in
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
> I'm uncertain what the situation for written vernacular language was at that time.
As far as I understand, spelling was standardized surprisingly recently in most western languages (usually 17th-18th century). Latin dictionaries have been around, but there weren't really dictionaries as we know them today. In such a context, it's hard to pin down what literacy even means.