• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        The Middle Ages were not “a time of ignorance, barbarism and superstition”; the Church did not place religious authority over personal experience and rational activity;

        Like hell it didn’t.

        and the term “Dark Ages” is rejected by modern historians

        Because it’s a prejudicial term, not because the past isn’t fucking shitty.