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>the Middle Ages, which are held up as a nadir of history. Mostly as a result of Renaissance- and Enlightenment-era propagandizing. I think we’ve mostly moved
by cbfrench 4y ago
>the Middle Ages, which are held up as a nadir of history.
Mostly as a result of Renaissance- and Enlightenment-era propagandizing. I think we’ve mostly moved beyond that reading of history, thankfully.
- wolverine876 4y agoI've seen people say that many times, without addressing the merits of the issue. And I've seen many strawperson arguments - i.e., the Middle Ages weren't uniformly awful - but nothing that compares the track records of before and after. It seems straightforward - most of what we have is post-Middle Ages, from our political systems to our economies, science, technology, arts; and the results are orders of magnitude better.