Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angl

--- On Wed, 11/5/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxone
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 5:06 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: george knysh
>
> >
> > Anti-parallel, so to speak: the Romans admired Greek
> > culture,
> > and the borrowing went in the other direction, from
> Greek
> > to
> > Latin.
> >
> > Brian
>
> ****GK: There may have been a bit in the opposite direction
> from the 6th c.
> onwards. I'm not sure how much. Perhaps not too much,
> but specialists would
> know. When the Eastern Roman Empire became hellenized.
> It's interesting that
> the Byzantines consistently referred to themselves (in
> Greek) as "Romei"
> (obviously from the Latin "Romani"").****
>
> ============
>
> Should we not interpret this as a sign the Byzantines were
> competing with
> the western part of the Empire, not about the
> "Roman" feature, but about the
> Christian feature, kind of trying to out-catholic the
> Catholics ?
>
> Arnaud

It is interesting that the Byzantines fostered national churches with local quirks while the Western Roman used the term katholikos for their "universal" church