Comments on: Top 10 Reasons The Dark Ages Were Not Dark

By: Top 10 Reasons We Should Revive the Dark Ages 560 « KasKus MaNiaK

Top 10 Reasons We Should Revive the Dark Ages 560 « KasKus MaNiaK — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:49:15 +0000

[...] is a false term coined in the post-medieval period to cast aspersions over the middle ages. The dark ages were not dark – they were, in fact, a great time to live. I am a medievalphile, and suffer from [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:49:06 +0000

Point 10 states that the first university was established in 1088 but this is outside what is commonly referred to as the Dark Ages (476-1000). This point undermines your overall argument – a lack of learning is central to idea that this period was a ‘dark’ time.

By: 10 Unfortunate Fates of English Kings

10 Unfortunate Fates of English Kings — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:46:30 +0000

[...] hog, and pleasing themselves at the expense of the people they ruled. It was not always so. In the middle ages many of them missed out on a trouble free reign culminating in a State Funeral. We know very [...]

By: jason taylor

jason taylor — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:46:30 +0000

Uh, there was a “great period of peace among western nations” in the Middle Ages just because it wasn’t religion they were fighting over? Where do you get that? Peacefulness just wasn’t a Medieval quality; it wasn’t even particularly admired.

By: Eye on Britain (2)

Eye on Britain (2) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:10:40 +0000

[...] On closer examination, however, the Renaissance was not such a sudden change. There was a continuing quiet evolution of thinking even in the “dark” ages and much that is attributed to the Renaissance came in fact from Medieval times. See here. [...]

By: Kalontas

Kalontas — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:24:06 +0000

Religious unity? Really? You mean the times of some of the first Church councils, banning various “heretical cults”, the decline of gnosticism and times when Arianism was almost as much problem for the Church as protestantism in 15th century a time of “religious unity”?

Folks, I’d take that article with a grain of salt.

By: 10 Terrible Acts of Mother Nature | Tokyo Local Me.me

10 Terrible Acts of Mother Nature | Tokyo Local Me.me — Sat, 28 May 2011 05:02:53 +0000

[...] factor in initiating the three hundred years of social turmoil in Europe, erroneously known as the Dark Ages but now known as the early Middle [...]

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HotTrendsAggregator » 10 Terrible Acts of Mother Nature — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:41:21 +0000

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Dancey dance time — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:47:58 +0000

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By: List Love! « Mrs. Budd's World History Class

List Love! « Mrs. Budd's World History Class — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:02:12 +0000

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