SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Purgatory, Westernization

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3 Feb 2015
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What"s sepcial? culutural history is a sotry of missed historical opportunities: Russa comes from a broad culture reffered to as teh culture of the eastern slavs - russian, ukranian, belarussian, etc. At some point these languages were quite similar but distinct from western slavs. This area was never colonized by roman empire. This means that east slavic lands were never exposed to latin or greek (greek was lingua franca). So language of classical learning were not known in east slavic lands and not exposed to backbone of western civilization. (poles, germans czhech ofcourse had this exposure). Precursors of russia were batptized by the byzantines. Greek orthodoxy brought certain traditions but also barred certain traditions. When greek traditions were brought to russia, they were not brought like latin cultures are brought to christian lands. When a land was baptized by catholics, it was done in latin. But greek orthodox church baptized not in greek, but in a language other than greek.

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