Why was Britain always a cultural backwater compared to

>Am I fitting in yet

>>2321779
Too busy building imperium

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>>2321798
yeah its not like the holy roman empire spawned greats like mozart and beethoven or anything

he's right you know

Britain wasn't a "backwater" but it was nothing compared to germany, italy, or france in terms of culture

>>2321779
They had their share of European history as everybody else. Knowledge and culture was first spread through monasteries, later through universities. Britain had both and plenty of them.

The real question is why Poland was always a cultural backwater. I mean, especially compared to Bohemia.

>>2321779
Germany wasn't that much better. Truth is, pretty much all of Europe and pretty much the whole world was uncultured compared to Italy and France. But it's largely due to Britain being sparsely populated for most of history.

>>2322354
>what are cambridge and oxford
>who are newton and maxwell
>what is the printing press
>who are Euler and Gauss

>>2321779
Compared to France YES, to Germany not even close