arguing that the ‘Fall of Rome’ created a ‘Dark Ages’ which was bad and is a term that is pejorative from a place of total ignorance.
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Can we get more historical knowledge distributed this way?
And applied directly to my face?
ok but I get to watch.
OK but I get to wear the booty shorts
Ignorant layperson here, less ignorant now. Thank you.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had so much fun learning so much about history. Gimme more. GIMME
This was a great read! Had a lot of fun with it and got educated.
It’s dark age Europe, because of the chuch.
Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.
Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn’t give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.
Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don’t go to masses anymore.
no the term pretty universally refers to intellectual decline. that’s why historians no longer use it