Since we began the medieval Christian part of the podcast, one historical question bothered me quite a lot: how big was the audience these author were able to reach, and the circulation of their works? I know a precise answer is probably lost to history, but I would really like to know even the broad estimates of the size of philosophical community of the time. Is it possible that the people able to engage with and understand Eurigena's finest points numbered less than twenty, or is it way too pesimistic a guess? The idea of being a smartest man in ones oikumene and being positively sure of this fact is both fascinating and terryfing at the same time
Audience and circulation
Since we began the medieval Christian part of the podcast, one historical question bothered me quite a lot: how big was the audience these author were able to reach, and the circulation of their works? I know a precise answer is probably lost to history, but I would really like to know even the broad estimates of the size of philosophical community of the time. Is it possible that the people able to engage with and understand Eurigena's finest points numbered less than twenty, or is it way too pesimistic a guess? The idea of being a smartest man in ones oikumene and being positively sure of this fact is both fascinating and terryfing at the same time