I for one think the "dark ages" werent a real thing

people thinking that "oh the church just burned people who thought about science calling it witchcraft and blah blah"

like i was taught that

somehow

while europe was in the dark ages caus religun hurt science

depends how you want to understand the term. there was a period of decline in the prosperity and scholarship in western europe.

the middle east was in the golden age

caus islam gud!

at the time it had some headway over Christianity and the mutazilla sect was massively productive in terms of intellectual output

"The phrase "Dark Age" itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th centuries.[5] The concept thus came to characterize the entire Middle Ages as a time of intellectual darkness between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance; this became especially popular during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.[3]"

this is basically what I was taught

yet they fail to mention how its because of the BIG BAD KNOWLEDGE HATING CATHOLICS that we are able to read the greeks

irish monks preserved the works of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle

if the catholics were truly BIG BAD KNOWLEDGE HATERS WHO CALLED BEING SMART BEING A WITCH then why wouldnt they burn the works of EVIL PAGANS LIKE PLATO AND PLUTARCH

they also did that to be fair, overall i think the catholic church had a positive impact but the legacy certainly isnt consistent across the board

nor could it have been, i think people are very quick to dismiss the concerns of the church at the time but looking at the reformation period in depth or say why islam didnt continue accepting mutazilla as a mainstream sect shows that there were legitimate concerns with the free spread of information with some parallels to today

it was an age of superstition and it simply wasnt feasible in the economic conditions of the time to provide a quality education to most peasants. that means that if people started thinking sacrificing all their cows would get them something then they might just do that and not have food for winter

alot of the ordeals that are similarly seen as superstitious by the church were understood as bs by the priests but were used to calm people down prepared to kill eachother over some slight that could be figured out with some bullshittery on the side and some inside information thanks to confession

however it also failed to appreciate the impact of the printing press and change to an increasing accuracy and connectivity of thought

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