Re: [tied] Re: Chronology of the Christianization of the East Roman

Because of Christianisation, yes, e.g. Vulgar Latin parabolare = talk.  However, I can't think off-hand of any resulting from its manner of imposition.

Dear Richard,

    The adoption of Christianity by the Empire and the resultant adoption of Latin as the Church language in the West and Greek as the Church language in the East prolonged the survival of the Classical languages in the old Empire and its spread in the successor states.

    Especially in the West, educated people of the upper classes would learn Latin and the underclasses would hear it in Church.  I might suggest that much of the vocabulary of the modern Romance languages comes not from the Romanized subject populations of the empire but from the Latin and Greek usage of the Churches. I surely would not like to argue an all or none position.

     I did not post the chronology to start a fire, only to stoke a little historically based argument that brings together data that we have not yet been presented with.  Personally, I am not riding to war on one side or the other. We all share in the heritage that results from the Christianization of Europe via the Empire.