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Early Christian Geography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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Practical and theoretical geography were at a low ebb between the conversion of the Empire and the Crusades; but they had in themselves great possibilities. The time of sowing must not disappoint us if it fail to give a crop: in the age of the making of the modern nations we cannot expect the discovering instinct to show much activity. But if we wish to gain a proper understanding of the development of European Christendom upon the surface of the earth, we must begin with the origins. And these we find, as far as are necessary for our purpose, in the pilgrim-travellers and convent-maps and religious science of the centuries between Constantine and our own English Alfred.
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page 90 note 1 So in Columbus's discovery, the incidental success—the finding of America en route—proved to be even more important than his original aim, the reaching of India from the West, by the West.
page 92 note 1 In the thirteenth century the Catholic theologians attempted, with some success, to absorb as much of the new and revived learning as appeared in any way compatible with their inherited dogmas. When this broke down, the Church had only the choice of war with science, or a subject-alliance with it.
page 93 note 1 And except to a certain extent in architecture, as may be seen from the Mameluke buildings in Cairo. But it is only in a very qualified sense that the Mameluke rulers of Egypt can be called ‘Turkish.’
page 94 note 1 Geographical Essays.
page 97 note 1 As Well as of barbarians, like the Avars.
page 100 note 1 Within ten years (325–333).
page 102 note 1 In 1883.
page 104 note 1 Before Gregory the Great, indeed, the Catholic Church for the most part seemed content with dominion inside the Empire, and left outside enterprise to the heretics.