“On the map the fortresses were shown as tent-shaped figures, and the forests had their trees sketched in them. These were good maps. They could easily be understood even by those who could not read. And at that time even among the titled nobility there were many who could neither read nor write. And why should they? It was the job of the clerk to write if anything needed writing, and if a letter arrived, to read it to his master.”
Géza Gárdonyi, Eclipse of the Crescent Moon
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