SC - medieval cookbooks and literacy

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Hi all from Anne-Marie
hmmmm.
Like Stefan, someone once told me that the concept of "literacy" in the
middle ages meant your ability to read and write latin, and how well versed
you were in literature. 

Margery Kemp dictated her memoires to a scribe (several scribes...she kept
driving them away. What a fruitcake!) and she was your basic middle class
female type. But we know she read religious tracts and other biographies of
saints, etc. as she describes them in her memoires.

So perhaps Chiquart and Margery and le Menagier? dictated stuff to scribes
so that the handwriting would be tidy and all, but were capable of reading
and writing themselves?

- --AM, not very "literate", but very capable of reading the venacular.
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