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On contrarian history – Going Medieval (going-medieval.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/history@mander.xyz

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arguing that the ‘Fall of Rome’ created a ‘Dark Ages’ which was bad and is a term that is pejorative from a place of total ignorance.

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[–] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's dark age Europe, because of the chuch.

Aquinas apologetics in there too, yay.

Fortunately no one owns the period or phrase and we are free to call dark age Europe dark age Europe if we wish, and I couldn't give a fuck if someone with a sticker thinks otherwise.

Academia as everything else runs on trends, fashions and the needs of the masses, even those that don't go to masses anymore.