Pre-print cultural exposure was limited to sermons, frescos, and travelling spectacles

Evidence

In the Middle Ages, quite apart from the fact that literacy was exceptional, a monk would only have a few hundred, or at most a few thousand, works available to him. To produce each of them required weeks or months of labour. The vast majority of the population was only exposed to a very limited number of discourses (the weekly sermon), images (religious frescos and paintings) and spectacles (passion plays, jugglers, wandering musicians). — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 27

Categorization

• XREF: Circles back to Innis and the bias of communication — media history as the driver of cultural scale. — connects to: Oral performance carried poetry’s propaganda to mass audiences in pre-literate societies — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 468; Poetry served as mass media in pre-print societies. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 369

Broader Connections

• Poetry served as mass media in pre-print societies. #expands (0.75) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 369
• Oral performance carried poetry’s propaganda to mass audiences in pre-literate societies #corroborates (0.72) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 468