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there's an argument monasteries gave birth to the modern European scientific tradition too
by walleeee 4y ago
there's an argument monasteries gave birth to the modern European scientific tradition too
- deepsun 4y agoOr Ancient Greece (and later Rome), some 500 years before the monasteries.
- eitland 4y agoAncient Greeks did not send representatives to my country at least. The Church did however and brought with it a lot of knowledge.
- walleeee 4y agoSure, guess I should say *modern European, or perhaps English Bacon, Grosseteste, etc
- diegoholiveira 4y ago> Or Ancient Greece (and later Rome), some 500 years before the monasteries. And we know this because monasteries kept a large army of monks guarding the knowledge so that it would one day serve society.
- kingofpandora 4y agoMuch of ancient Greek knowledge comes to us because the Arabs preserved it. Some of them were Christians of course (so the occasional monastery may have been involved) but mostly not.
- diegoholiveira 4y agoYes, the Arabs keep some, Europeans keep others. That’s why I use the word “much” in the beginning of my statement.
- ticviking 4y agoA more accurate description of that history is that the Christian Byzantine empire preserved it but it came to us from the Arabs as a result of it taking a foreign invasion to get Greek Christians and The West to talk to one another after 1054