http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=festivals+in+the+middle+ages+&rows=24
Medieval people got books that were hand copiedby monks, Books were very expensive so they had to be hand copied.
Beowulf was a poem that many kid were lucky to read and we still do today before that students used to write with stone tablets, the tabs that were used to do just about everything trade, reading, writing.