Am I the only one left in the world who still believes that the Dark Ages were dark??

[tarnport@mastodon.green]

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.

[max@poliverso.org]

@Tarnport

As I probably wrote you some time ago, in Italy we've got a very well known historian, Alessandro Barbero, who's strongly fighting the idea that middle age was somehow "dark".

Funny enough, the only middle age historian I have among my friends told me the same thing 30 years ago, when we met the first time.

Anyway, if you want to go a bit deeper into this topic this is one of the many contributions by A. Barbero.

youtu.be/m8zhSAg04Zg?si=PTMc94…

[tarnport@mastodon.green]

@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...

[max@poliverso.org]

@Tarnport

Just in case you want to go even deeper, here are some podcasts. 😁

Ius primae noctis
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/a…

The flat Earth
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/a…

The fear of year 1000
dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/a…

[max@poliverso.org]

@Tarnport

Sorry, my English is far worse than your Italian, I can't understand if you're in the team "middle age was dark" or in the team "middle age wasn't dark" 😁