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Absolutely. Christian monks in particular were a force of strong obscurantism, from the 300s when they gained power in the Roman Empire and for the millennium t
by andrepd 4y ago
Absolutely. Christian monks in particular were a force of strong obscurantism, from the 300s when they gained power in the Roman Empire and for the millennium that followed.
The picture we have in our minds of the scholar monk copying the Greek classics was only really true starting with the 1200s, not earlier.
- clarionbell 4y agoMonks gained power in Roman empire? Can you name some?
- andrepd 4y agoThey = Christians in general, not a monk in particular. After the proclamation of Christianity as the official religion of the empire, it took only a few years/decades before Christians were on a full-blown iconoclastic campaign of destruction of so-called "pagan" religion, and all non-Christian culture in general. This meant murder and forced conversions, but also destruction of patrimony: libraries burned, temples razed, schools closed, statues smashed, etc.