Roman influence in Britain

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It would be appropriate to mention that there was a center of Christianity in Ireland at this time, which had considerable importance in the British Isles, and in some ways, the whole of Christendom. I agree that the presence of this non-Roman influence may have diminished the transmission of Latin culture in Britain.

Indeed, if we are talking about the end of the 5th start of the 6th cents. At the start of the 5th, Ireland is still pagan. St. Patrick is thought to have been a romano Briton living in the west of Britain. It is because British and Irish Christianity are relatively distant from the Gallo roman Church that it develops along different lines. There were contacts, but the impetus was to convert the Irish and stop Pelaganism getting a foothold.

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