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Seems it all happened after the Middle Ages, during those so-called rational times of the Renaissance and Enlightenment though. The Middle Ages have a bad repu
by FranzFerdiNaN 4y ago
Seems it all happened after the Middle Ages, during those so-called rational times of the Renaissance and Enlightenment though.
The Middle Ages have a bad reputation but most horrific things that we now consider medieval behavior happened after it. Witch hunts aren’t really a medieval thing for example. While you had conflicting opinions of course the general opinion of thr Church was that witchcraft was just superstition and not real.
- xvilka 4y agoThen it's time to stop calling these times as Renaissance and Enlightenment.
- Teever 4y agoWould it really be productive to rename entire periods of history and cause a confusing rift between documents produced before the name change and after?
- UncleMeat 4y agoThis is already a growing norm among academics. "Renaissance" is often now prefixed by a region and refers to art movements. The time period is more often called "Early Modern." Similarly, "Enlightenment" refers to a specific intellectual movement and not a time period when people are being precise.