HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Crimea, East-Central Europe, Middle Ages
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300 ad the roman empire accepted christianity as the state religion, the. By the end of the empire, there were two networks: the state network and the christian episcopal network. ~ the church was not destroyed along with the empire and the invading. ~ the goths were christians already when they invaded and so it was easier for them to assimilate. The ecclesiastical organization was not destroyed and became a basis for new europe culturally, state organization (ancient knowledge transferred to barbarians) God with four faces (slavic god) etc. were pagan gods linked to tribal societies. By the end of the 10th c. most states had become christian. Christianity organization had a common language latin (language of intellectuals, elite) Latin became a basis for local linguistic reforms. Identity up to the 18th c. national identity did not exist; christian identity was more important at the time. Natio appeared in the medieval era when students were grouped together.
