Best of us all the best he Philosophy Podcast, brought to you with the

support of the Philosophy Department at King's College London and the

LMU in Munich. Online at www. History of Philosophy.net. Today's episode will be an interview

about the relation between Byzantine philosophy and philosophy in Latin Christendom,

with Michael Etrizio, who is a research fellow at the University of Bade.

Hi, Michael. Hi, Michael.

Hi, Peter.

Thanks for coming on the podcast.

Thank you.

The first question I have is about the knowledge of Latin in the Byzantine realm.

The scholars of Latin Christendom are famous for mostly not knowing Greek with some exceptions like William and more Becca

and others who translated from Greek into Latin is the reverse true in Byzantineantium so that we can assume that

knowledge of Latin was very rare? Yes it is let's say that from late

antiquity on just as in the Latin West the knowledge of Greek slowly disappears also in this there are less and less people knowing Latin

There is one exception in the sense that they needed people knowing Latin because of the Justinian code of law and they knew people they needed people to be able to understand and speak Latin but from the seven to eight century also this

tiny evidence disappear.

Is that because they just translate all the legal works in a degree.

The interesting thing is that they kept calling the study of law,

the science of the Italians.

That means the science of the Latin's,

as if it's not something which is the

authentically Byzantine. And were they even interested in Latin texts and did they

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