I think maybe the most ironic part of the white supremacist “Muslims are taking over Europe, save European culture and its people!” rhetoric is that they’ve been saying it for the past 1,300 years. No exaggeration. This is something they’ve been fearmongering about since the 8th century.
Then they’ll complain about how historically inaccurate and woke it is that there are nonwhite characters in European period dramas like it is totally impossible for a North African man to be in England in the 13th century and we don’t have manuscripts of assholes complaining about it from back then.
Also whose schools and universities do you think those early elite Europeans were going to…that’s right, the Arab and Muslim ones (not always the same thing).
I “love” how this article makes this period sound like a rich cultural exchange of new ideas, but really it means that Europe was an intellectual backwater for many centuries.
In addition to the many inventions and concepts of the SW Asian and N African cultures, these centers of learning are largely how Europeans learned about their “own” Greek and Roman arts and sciences.
Causes of the Renaissance - The main causes of the Renaissance included: increased interaction, the Crusades, rediscovery of ancient texts,
