Also known as illiterati (people ignorant of Latin letters), the common run of people were defined intellectually by the limits of their idiom and by the type and "quality" of reading materials available to them.
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Illiterati
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Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 拉丁語文盲 /拉丁语文盲 noun (those who cannot read and write Latin)
- 文盲 noun (those who are illiterate and unlearned)
Japanese
2 entries- ラテン語の非識字者 noun (those who cannot read and write Latin)
- 無教養者 noun (those who are illiterate and unlearned)
Spanish
1 entries- iliteratos noun (those who are illiterate and unlearned)
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Offering this address largely in the first person plural, Foxe identifies himself not with the illiterati, who were incapable of reading it, but with Latin-literate Protestants whose numbers must have included many who shared the compiler's ministerial vocation.
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Moreover, the fact that such listeners existed at all is a powerful testament to the cultural importance that Latin history enjoyed at the beginning of the twelfth century, and Rober's broad includsion of literati and illiterati alike even expands Baudri's decidedly inclusive sense of audience for Latin histories.
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A lower species, indeed, is that of the scribes you mention, who every night compose a journal for the satisfaction of such illiterati
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