User blog comment:Dragonfire8/Peasants being able to read/@comment-5036924-20120301204825

There are anachronisms left right and centre on Merlin :) It would be too difficult and awkward to try and make everything historically accurate, I guess, and it's really not what the show's going for.

Although incidentally, Merlin and Gwen are the only two I can think of right now who are servants and who have been shown to read. Who else do you have in mind?