7 sentences with “illiterate”

"An illiterate person can know a lot more about botany than someone with a PhD.

The serfs, mostly illiterate, depended on these literate priests to read and interpret the Bible, the word of God, for them.

Nikolai II's wife, Tsarina Alexandra, enlisted the services of a wandering, illiterate monk and healer named Grigori Rasputin.

Byzantine icons were beautifully crafted and, in a largely illiterate society, were vitally important in the daily experience of most Christians.

Since the vast majority of the population was completely illiterate, it was impossible for most Christians to have access to anything more than the rudiments of Christian belief.

It was not just a matter of the emperors' self-congratulation, of showing off because they felt important; this was part of the symbolism of power, of reaching out to a largely illiterate population with visible displays of authority.

While most people - by definition, peasants - remained illiterate and largely ignorant of the world beyond their own villages, there was at least an undercurrent of genuine intellectual curiosity and rigorous scholarship spreading in the cities, monasteries and convents of the High Middle Ages.