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**imporesweemo** · 07-21-2007, 12:23 AM

Originally posted by Colon™
This isn't getting anywhere. Just this:

I'd recommend you to check about the Etymologiae by Isidore of Sevilla, compiled in the 7th century and containing amongst others Greek philosophy and Roman law. Might also want to read about Scholasticism. Etymologiae was a sort of encyclopedia. To say that its existance during the middle ages represented the preservation of roman literature would be like saying that if we burned every book in English except the Encyclopedia Britannica that English literature was surviving.

Are you just contesting the idea that the Roman Empire collapsed? Why don't you go ahead and develop that idea?

07-21-2007, 12:23 AM	#13
imporesweemo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 385 Senior Member	Originally posted by Colon™ This isn't getting anywhere. Just this: I'd recommend you to check about the Etymologiae by Isidore of Sevilla, compiled in the 7th century and containing amongst others Greek philosophy and Roman law. Might also want to read about Scholasticism. Etymologiae was a sort of encyclopedia. To say that its existance during the middle ages represented the preservation of roman literature would be like saying that if we burned every book in English except the Encyclopedia Britannica that English literature was surviving. Are you just contesting the idea that the Roman Empire collapsed? Why don't you go ahead and develop that idea?
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