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TengrainJust sayin’
Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱*taps foot in roommate-of-a-medievalist*
Kevin RussellLots of plagues which explains why they hate vaccines, research, science and terrible health care system.
Ok, here's my reasoning. There has been a Christian society run by the rich in the West continuously since late antiquity. Why single out a poor defenseless couple of centuries that left little written or material culture, when the black death was late medieval and well documented, witch trials were the Renaissance, science/research wasn't a thing yet so it's hard to hold it against them, and the same shitty Galenic theory of humors reigned until ~1850? Seems unfair to me.
Fardels Bear@Tengrain @rjblaskiewicz @kevinrns
The Pythons didn't make up that stuff about killer bunnies.
Virginicus@riggbeck @Tengrain @rjblaskiewicz @kevinrns The more I learn about history, the more I think Monty Python made up nothing.
Token Sane Person@Tengrain @rjblaskiewicz @kevinrns Giant killer bunnies seem to have been a thing back then.
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/06/killer-rabbits.html
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/06/killer-rabbits.html
Medieval killer rabbits: when bunnies strike back
Vengeful, merciless and brutally violent... yes that’s right, we’re talking about medieval bunnies. Rabbits can often be found innocently frolicking in the decorated borders or illuminations of medieval manuscripts, but sometimes, for reasons unknown, these adorable fluffy creatures turn into stone-cold killers. These darkly humorous images of medieval killer bunnies...
Not Christian, or even Christian society, its rule by religion, its "my arrogant and confused ignorance is rhe holiest thought possible. So you die for disagreeing"
And "go find who disagrees with me, or dresses wrong, or recites rhe same psalms but in the wrong order, so we can burn them."
Its hiding and burning all the books.
Untrammelled authority and power. Plus ignorance.
Power corrupts Churches, just like billionaires.
And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
cuan_knaggs@rjblaskiewicz @kevinrns @Tengrain sure the "dark ages" moniker was part of the marketing campaign that created the concept of the renaissance, but it's not a gag without merit
Juho Mäntysalo("Dark ages" as a term was ignorance and propaganda. And quite possibly imperialism.)
François @JuraHistory doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes, nowadays Dark age is called Dark enlightenment or dark MAGA.
Pixelcode 🇺🇦@Tengrain @ulrichkelber Yeah, the reason it's called “Dark Ages” is lack of education, arrogance and egocentrism.
https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/theres-no-such-thing-as-the-dark-ages-but-ok/
Jan Niklas Fingerle@Tengrain
It's called "dark ages" for its lack of original sources remaining for us to read today. So, what's your point? Just spreading falsehoods in the name of doing good?
It's called "dark ages" for its lack of original sources remaining for us to read today. So, what's your point? Just spreading falsehoods in the name of doing good?
whippoorwill@Tengrain “We’re about to enter an era that’s gonna make the Middle Ages look like a Grateful Dead concert”—-Ken Kesey, 1999
Robin Barton@Tengrain But it was grand for the rich and powerful
Meki@Tengrain tbh, it's a perfect description for every religion run state. Religion likes things not to change.
ZAC
Jonathan Schofield@Tengrain congratulations to everyone bringing “well actually” to a shit posting thread
My work is done here.