Late antiquity and the early middle ages (312–1000)
Chris Brown|Terry Nardin|Nicholas Rengger
With the coming of Christianity to Rome, character Graeco-Roman political thought began change. introduced a whole series questions which were largely alien classical thought, most obviously for our purposes here question justice use force as such. At same time, collapse Western half Roman empire in second fifth century ce , together with and military longevity East – was survive vibrant at least until shattering Byzantine defeat battle Manzikert 1071 presence 1453, when Constantinople captured by Ottoman Turks led ever-increasing plurality practice. This coupled, course, rise spread new religious movements such Islam (after seventh century) provided very different context than mix Greek, Roman, Christian ideas dominant Eastern Europe. However, especially Greek remained influential on all major traditions Christian, Jewish, Islamic Europe Asia Minor during this period (Lerner Mahdi, 1963; Burns, 1988). chapter will principally focus worlds, interpenetrating intellectual crossover time strong because these two faiths though no means, monolithic we shall also refer Judaic thinking from (an excerpt Maimonides' Logic is included show how classified see pp. 111–14 below).
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