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Early Medieval Missionary Activity: A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Methods*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2011

Richard E. Sullivan
Richard E. Sullivan
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Northeast Missouri State Teachers College
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One of the more fascinating problems connected with the history of the early Middle Ages is the persistence of similarities and the emergence of differences in the ideas and institutions of the eastern and western remnants of the Roman Empire. Equally intriguing is the related problem of the origins and the nature of the differences which characterize the Slavic and Germanic groups that fell under the influence of the Greeks and the Latins during the early Middle Ages. This paper will attempt to throw some light, on these problems by examining the field of missionary history. It will try to compare the methods employed by the eastern and western missionaries to convert the Slavic and Germanic groups living on the borders of Christendom in the period from about A.D. 600 to 900. Such a comparison might be revealing. It will permit one to see wherein the Greeks and the Latins acted alike or differently as each attacked the same problem. It will also allow one to detect some of the formative forces implanted in the Slavic and Germanic worlds as each underwent the fundamental experience of adopting a new religion.

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Church History , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1954 , pp. 17 - 35
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1954

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92. ibid., II, c. 9, 13, pp. 84–85, 94–95.

93. See above, note 85, for references illustrating how the Christian version of the origin and development of the world ought to be explained to pagans.

94. Vie de Constantin, c. 17–18 (tr. Dvornik, pp. 378–380); Vita (sancti Cyrilli) cum translatione s. Clementis, c. 8–12 (Acta Sanctorum, Martius. II. 21–22)