Brownworth frames Western Europe as the primary beneficiary and principal ingrate of Byzantine civilization: Byzantine scholars fleeing Constantinople brought classical learning to an awakening West that then quickly forgot where that learning came from, leading to the Renaissance while dismissing its Byzantine source.
What each episode says
Episode 8 (5 mentions)
“vision, the reconquest of the Western Empire. And this dream, he well knew, could be entrusted”
“western emperor had been sent into a comfortable retirement. But there had been too many enemies”
“in Western Europe as the Black Death, but the 6th century outbreaks were perhaps even worse.”
Episode 15 (1 mention)
“Western Europe saw Byzantium as the obvious scapegoat.”
Episode 17 (2 mentions)
Brownworth frames Western Europe as the primary beneficiary and principal ingrate of Byzantine civilization: Byzantine scholars fleeing Constantinople brought classical learning to an awakening West that then quickly forgot where that learning came from, leading to the Renaissance while dismissing its Byzantine source.
“Fleeing the wreck of their homeland Byzantine scholars fled to Western Europe”
“Classics the result was a rebirth or as they called it Renaissance where Western Europe was reintroduced to its own roots”
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