• 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.