HIST-211 Lecture 60: Early Medieval Latin Culture
23 Sep 2020
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For both justinian and heraclius, christian unification was just as important as military victories. Christian unity was even more important in the latin west, where political unity under the empire evaporated: the latin patristic contribution. The christian culture that emerged in early medieval latin europe was built on the contributions of the latin church fathers: ambrose (d. 397), jerome (d. 420), augustine (d. 430), gregory the great (d. 604), christianity and classical culture. Just like the greek fathers in the east, the latin fathers were responsible for synthesizing. Christianity already had a lot of classical culture built into it: ambrose. An influential bishop of milan, brought greek influences into the latin west. He directly influenced augustine, who wasn"t great at greek. Was a conduit between greek and latin christians. Unlike ambrose, he went from west to east, living in the holy land and translating hebrew and. Before then, latin christians used various translations of the septuagint.
