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The work examines the state and evolution of schools and the state of education, the role of book culture in the Eastern Mediterranean of the early Byzantine time (IV–VII centuries) in the context of the cultural continuity between antiquity and the Middle Ages, using the cities of the Syro-Palestinian region of Antioch, Berita, Caesarea and Gaza as an example. In addition to the internal history of schools, general observations are made on the specifics of the situation in each of these centers. The entire late antique world from the middle of the VI century. began to show signs of mediaevalization of knowledge, the evolution of the picture of the world, which was associated with other processes of completing the development of ancient civilization (the termination of real municipal self-government, the growth of statism, the deepening of Christianization, the influence of revived local ethno-religious traditions in the regions). However, maintaining high standards of literacy, books, and schools continued until Byzantium entered the Dark Ages. |
