Children's Literacy in Early Medieval England

After the age of seven noble children would often be sent away. This was usually the case for boys but it appears to have been common enough for girls too. The base assumption is that girls were seen as less important than boys and would therefore get the thin end of the wedge. But there are enough examples of women reading and it being accepted as perfectly natural that they should do so. In 1268 we find Catherine Lesurgien working alongside her surgeon father and brother. During the 15th century clampdown on L'Ollardie a ruling lays down that women are to teach other women and children only in a domestic setting. Now that suggests that women are doing the said teaching and has