[TheAngryClam]

Just like your last post, your claims to Christian greatness lie only in preserving the ancient world, not surpassing it.

The Code of Justinian took and ordered already existing Roman law from the masses of statutes and laws already in effect.

If you're familiar with the American legal world, the Code of Justinian was similar to a Restatement of the Law.

[ArneFufkin]

Thanks for your input.

[RobbyS]

The notion of the Renaissance as a "restoration " of classical society is a myth. In fact it can be question whether there was such a thing as the Renaissance, at least as a historical epoch. It might be said that in many ways the "medieval " civilization endured until the 19th century and the creation of modern urban culture. The scientific and technological developments of the 17th and 18th centuries didnot suddenly apear but were the result of hubdreds of years of development, beginning with simple but crucial inventions as the mechanical clock.

[Antoninus]

Just like your last post, your claims to Christian greatness lie only in preserving the ancient world, not surpassing it.

Ok, now you're just getting silly. At the end of the Roman Empire in the West, there could be no thought to surpassing anything. With wave after wave of illiterate barbarians sweeping through, burning and pillaging for four centuries, just preservation was enough. When things settled down somewhat after the 9th century, only then we can talk of surpassing. And indeed, the High Middle Ages were a time of reawakening in terms of the arts and sciences--all under the auspices of the Catholic Church. It could well be argued that Thomas Aquinas took Aristotle and surpassed him. Or that the great cathedrals of Western Europe surpassed the architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome. Or that Dante surpassed (or at least equaled) Virgil.

I'm sorry you misunderstood my posts. I can't blame you. They don't teach this stuff in most high schools and colleges any more. Too salutary of Christianity.