Timeline for Is there any evidence that the Catholic Church slowed innovation during the Middle Ages?
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 21:13 | comment | added | user2590 | @RISwampYankee - "The large body of medieval secular literature puts lie to the claim the church kept writing alive." How so? As in your answer, above, this statement is a non sequitur - you have proved nothing. Who were those writers of secular literature? Where/how did those writers learn how to write? "Large Amount"? Where are your statistics? By whose standards? What is the amount of written secular literature per capita vs other times? Vs religious literature? As in your answer, you have stated a meaningless, unsubstantiated assertion, that proves nothing with respect to the question. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 21:07 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @RISwampYankee - Perhaps. But considering pretty much all "scholarly work" done in Europe before the Renaissance was being done by members of the Clergy, the fact that they didn't allow some things cannot be used to wipe out the fact that they did allow others. Without them it would have been nothing. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 19:11 | comment | added | RI Swamp Yankee | The church destroyed all non-liturgical writing to begin with. Most of what we have of the Classics were translated back into greek and latin from Aramaic and Arabic after the crusades and the reconquista. Even then, the non-aristotelian classics were suppressed until the Renaissance. The church was very thorough in stamping down heresy - any scholarly work that didn't toe the line was destroyed and its author disciplined or worse. The large body of medieval secular literature puts lie to the claim the church kept writing alive. | |
| Jun 20, 2012 at 18:55 | history | answered | T.E.D.♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |