中世纪末期阿拉伯文化对西欧的影响——以医院骑士团为视角

The Influence of Arabic Culture to the Medieval Western Europe in the Late Middle Age—A Study Based on the Knights Hospitallers

中世纪末期,医院骑士团一直处在与穆斯林交往的前沿,它在生活方式和医疗技术、商业贸易和经济交往、军事技术和知识文化以及行为习惯等方面均受到了阿拉伯文化的巨大影响。这些影响通过十字军战士传入西欧,对西欧科学技术的发展、商业的繁荣和文化水平的提高意义重大。在一定程度上,它促进了西欧的文艺复兴和商业革命,推动西欧走出中世纪的蒙昧,迈向近代化的历史进程。

During the crusades, with the knights hospitallers being on the leading edge communicating with the Muslim, they had taken great influence on life-style and medical technology, commercial trade and economic intercourse, military technology and cultural knowledge, and behavioral habit from Arabic culture. These effects were introduced by the crusaders to Western Europe, improving its development of science and technology, business prosperity and culture level. To some extent, it promoted the arrival of Renaissance and commercial revolution, driving the Western Europe out of the Medieval obscuration and marching toward the history of modernization.