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How is it blaming anyone for the slave trade? Slavery and indeed slave trade existed during the Middle Ages, it existed in Ancient times. It existed during the early modern era even. No one's hands are entirely clean, if you want to get really pedantic.
There weren't very many notorious monsters hell bent on burning books and destroying knowledge. It was gradual and basically an unintended consequence of the decline of the Roman empire. The illiterate "barbarian" rulers that replaced the Romans just weren't as interested in books or literacy. The education of the average nobleman was to learn to hunt, fight and maybe a few languages such as Latin. But not to read or write it. These new rulers were chosen based on fighting ability and ruthlessness to rule. Not on their education.My understanding is that ALL literature was essentially destroyed, and that the transformation that occured in Europe would be comparable to a society that was essentially brilliantly evolved, into an illiterate culture entirely separated from the previous knowledge it had. My understanding is that during the Dark Ages, people were so stupid, they practically lost all cognitive skills, and returned to a sort of caveman state.
My understanding is that this all changed after Christian Crusaders entered into Spain and captured a certain city that had a library that held more books than the entirety of Europe had, and that after this, Europe re-entered a second age, and learned all over again what had been lost previously.
So who were these monsters that took down and destroyed Europe for about 1000 years? How did they do it, and what can we learn from it.
...Thanks in advance for your contributions to this thread.
Not really. The Renaissance began in around the 1420's in Italy. The only areas the Ottoman Empire had control of or was encroaching on at that time were the former holdings of the Byzantine Empire and the southern Slavic nations (plus Albania), none of which ever experienced the Dark Ages or the Renaissance (both of which were uniquely Western European phenomena).Meh there is some overlap.
My understanding is that ALL literature was essentially destroyed, and that the transformation that occured in Europe would be comparable to a society that was essentially brilliantly evolved, into an illiterate culture entirely separated from the previous knowledge it had. My understanding is that during the Dark Ages, people were so stupid, they practically lost all cognitive skills, and returned to a sort of caveman state.
My understanding is that this all changed after Christian Crusaders entered into Spain and captured a certain city that had a library that held more books than the entirety of Europe had, and that after this, Europe re-entered a second age, and learned all over again what had been lost previously.
So who were these monsters that took down and destroyed Europe for about 1000 years? How did they do it, and what can we learn from it.
...Thanks in advance for your contributions to this thread.
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Isn't there like entire classes in English Lit graduate (Uni) courses specifically dedicated to Medieval Literature? I suppose a lot of it was based on the oral tradition and was written down much later. But I don't understand why people picture the Dark Ages as a giant bonfire of vanities, if you will.
Well I know the Dark Ages generally refers to the Early Middle (Medieval) Ages. But it's more used to describe issues with the economy, culture and politics of the era. And because there's not a whole lot of historical documentation from the era, making it "dark."
My understanding is that ALL literature was essentially destroyed, and that the transformation that occured in Europe would be comparable to a society that was essentially brilliantly evolved, into an illiterate culture entirely separated from the previous knowledge it had. My understanding is that during the Dark Ages, people were so stupid, they practically lost all cognitive skills, and returned to a sort of caveman state.
My understanding is that this all changed after Christian Crusaders entered into Spain and captured a certain city that had a library that held more books than the entirety of Europe had, and that after this, Europe re-entered a second age, and learned all over again what had been lost previously.
So who were these monsters that took down and destroyed Europe for about 1000 years? How did they do it, and what can we learn from it.
...Thanks in advance for your contributions to this thread.
As far as I can tell, every statement in your post was wrong. Impressive.My understanding is that ALL literature was essentially destroyed, and that the transformation that occured in Europe would be comparable to a society that was essentially brilliantly evolved, into an illiterate culture entirely separated from the previous knowledge it had. My understanding is that during the Dark Ages, people were so stupid, they practically lost all cognitive skills, and returned to a sort of caveman state.
My understanding is that this all changed after Christian Crusaders entered into Spain and captured a certain city that had a library that held more books than the entirety of Europe had, and that after this, Europe re-entered a second age, and learned all over again what had been lost previously.
So who were these monsters that took down and destroyed Europe for about 1000 years? How did they do it, and what can we learn from it.
...Thanks in advance for your contributions to this thread.
