# of schools quadruple in England (1 jan 1350 ano – 31 dez 1500 ano)

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part of a trend of increasing literacy of laypeople | BIG BOIS = dante's divine comedy + chaucer's canterbury tales; showed an increase in use of vernacular (local langauges) instead of latin | many laypeople kept books at home (religious, romances, manuals on manners, histories, legal/philosophical texts, etc) | more laypeople went to school to learn reading, writing, math (even wealthy girls started learning reading/writing in addition to the usual singing, religion, needlework, etc) | rise of literacy --> rice of political power; laypeople began serving as managers of estates, clerks of guilds, town govt officials, etc

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