The Importance of Clay in the Middle Ages

Clay is this wonderful material on which to write because I mean a performance in the else is cheap. So much of like the European Middle Ages writing culture is shaped by how extremely expensive parchment is, you know that limits literacy in a very real sense. And so another wonderful thing about clay is that it's extremely durable. But the other side of the equation is that clay also snaps easily like it fragments easily. We have an abundance of written material but it's essentially the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle.