Am I the only one left in the world who still believes that the Dark Ages were dark??
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@max this is in fact the very thing I am watching right this minute that caused me to make the post!!! Also Alberto Angela. It's part of my homework for Italian to keep me interested in the grammar because I like the subject matter, but now I'm hoarse from yelling at the screen...
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@max I'm so sorry. My Italian is far worse, I assure you, and I won't even try to speak it here (but would love if you spoke Italian to me here!). I hope you have an automatic translator. I still think that the Dark Ages were (mostly, protractedly) dark and dead, and find the arguments presented to the contrary a bit flimsy and strained. Still I enjoy the topic, and this should be about vocabulary and grammar for me, not academic criticism.
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Am I the only one left in the world who still believes that the Dark Ages were dark?? It seems everything I read now asserts how the medieval era was "so...much...more!" They go on to describe the case, and if I had to choose a metaphor it would be coming out of a fine French restaurant fed to satiety and being accosted, hey, this rotten raw carrot, it's not nothing! No. It's not nothing. But it's not much, either.
I think it's all a scam because they ran out of subjects for doctoral theses.
@Tarnport The question for me is which paradigm I'd want to live under. I'm basically with you, but I think it has been oversold how dead and "dark" that period was.
It does read to me like the rule of law, among other things, was a lot more arbitrary and the corruption was enshrined, so to speak.
The thing that I chafe it is all of these people in the here and now wanting to reach back to that period and DIY everything. Trade existed, but it was far more limited. 1/
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@Tarnport The question for me is which paradigm I'd want to live under. I'm basically with you, but I think it has been oversold how dead and "dark" that period was.
It does read to me like the rule of law, among other things, was a lot more arbitrary and the corruption was enshrined, so to speak.
The thing that I chafe it is all of these people in the here and now wanting to reach back to that period and DIY everything. Trade existed, but it was far more limited. 1/
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@max I'm so sorry. My Italian is far worse, I assure you, and I won't even try to speak it here (but would love if you spoke Italian to me here!). I hope you have an automatic translator. I still think that the Dark Ages were (mostly, protractedly) dark and dead, and find the arguments presented to the contrary a bit flimsy and strained. Still I enjoy the topic, and this should be about vocabulary and grammar for me, not academic criticism.
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@max @Tarnport @dnkboston I've always been given to believe that the term "Dark Ages" refers only to the first half or so of the middle ages: In Britain I assume that would be the period after the Romans left, up until maybe the Norman Conquest or some time around then. So when we think about enormous stone castles and shiny plate armour, that's all late medieval. But the viking invasion, Bede, Cuthbert, Oswald; they were all in the Dark Ages. Please correct me, I'm no historian!
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@max @Tarnport @dnkboston I've always been given to believe that the term "Dark Ages" refers only to the first half or so of the middle ages: In Britain I assume that would be the period after the Romans left, up until maybe the Norman Conquest or some time around then. So when we think about enormous stone castles and shiny plate armour, that's all late medieval. But the viking invasion, Bede, Cuthbert, Oswald; they were all in the Dark Ages. Please correct me, I'm no historian!
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@max @Tarnport @dnkboston But where do you stand on the Dark Ages?
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@max @Tarnport @dnkboston But where do you stand on the Dark Ages?
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