On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Richard Wordingham < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:17:08 +0200 > Joó Ádám <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > To extend the list, the Irish, Scots, English, Scandinavians and > > > Poles picked up the Roman heritage without the assistance of being > > > physically conquered. And the Romanians re-established it as an > > > expression of non-Slavness. > > > > Well, the official language of Hungary was Latin up until 1844. Does > > that qualify us as the true inheritors of the Roman Empire? > > No. I wasn't sure how voluntarily Hungary (or rather, its rulers) had > adopted West European ways, so I didn't add Hungary to the list. Oh, its rulers adopted "West European" ways (or rather: the Latin Rite Church's way as opposed to the Greek Rite Church's ways) quite voluntarily in the late 10th century...
