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I listened to a podcast called “12 Byzantine Rulers” a while back. I believe they said a number of people fleeing after Constantinople fell made it into Venice
by didericis 6y ago
I listened to a podcast called “12 Byzantine Rulers” a while back. I believe they said a number of people fleeing after Constantinople fell made it into Venice and transplanted a lot of old knowledge that had been locked up and stagnant within the city. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment were both heavily influenced by a resurgence of interest in classical work that seems to have started around the exact same time Constantinople fell. I don’t know enough history to know all the reasons in favor or against that argument, but it makes a lot of sense to me that it was a contributing factor.
- joe_the_user 6y agoWell what you know, there is a connection, it seems, https://web.archive.org/web/20030930225420/http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/late/laterbyz/harris-ren.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030930225420/http://www.the-or...
- EarlKing 6y agoThe fleeing of scholars from Constantinople to Venice is comparable to the fleeing of scholars from Ionia to mainland Greece in the wake of the failed Ionian Revolt which kickstarted the golden age of Greek philosophy. They appeared at the right place and time with the right ideas which took root and transformed Western Europe.
- didericis 6y agoIt’s humbling to trace these kinds of intellectual lineages. Makes you appreciate the millennia of accumulated knowledge we’ve inherited/how everyone seems to be standing on the shoulders of the past.