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From: gd8f@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Gregory  Dandulakis)
Subject: Re: XX cty glagolitic
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In article <3nh7lr$mi3@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
Marek Konski <marek1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>Where have you learned all those stupidities,in some PC bookstore?
>Here is some basic historical knowledge, which you should acquire (not
>necessarily from leftist sources) before you start to judge what is
>correct and what is not.
...
>definetely stopped to be part of that Empire. It really requires a
>great stretch of imagination to state in the light of these facts that
>the "Latin Christiandom" in the Middle Ages, fundamentally meant
>"Frankish Christiandom". This is some sort of political fanaticism.
>What do you consider to be the Middle Ages? 


You project to the others your qualities, eh?


The Germanics flooded and ruled all Western Europe (except some
negligible fringes).

The Franks were the strongest Germanics.

The Franks forged the legitimacy of the powers which they gave to
Papacy through the pseudo-Constantinian and Pseudo-Isidorian tablets.
Powers which transformed Papacy from a religious center to a Political+
Religious center.

The Germanics in Spain originated the differentiating dogma of
Catholicism.

The Papacy under the Germanics adopted its differentiating dogma.

The Church of Rome, from roughly 400 till 1200 was an internal
"toy" to the Germanics. These were the years which split Catho-
licism from the rest of the Churches in the East.

The term "Frankish", "Latin", "Germanic" had pretty much equivalent
meaning in the eyes of the Roman Empire by the time of the 4th Cru-
sade. Don't jump into stupid and rhetoric "outrages" over "stretches
of imagination". This was a loose, more or less correct, and dominant
terminology. It is exactly the same application of terminology which
the Europeans had applied for the Ottomans as "Turks". A title which
the Ottomans never used to be self-identified, and despite the multi-
ethnic and heavily mixed nature of the Ottoman administration, still
more or less correctly the Europeans kept calling them "Turks".


Gregory
