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How Dark Were the Dark Ages? (Video)
Prager University ^ | 26 Jan 2015 | Anthony Esolen

Posted on 02/05/2015 10:40:09 PM PST by Arthur McGowan

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To: blam

well i for one kinda dig french fries... mushy perdaderz...etc. lol~!


41 posted on 02/06/2015 6:14:36 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: camle
Thank Peru. All ~2,000 varieties in the world come from there.
(BTW, the Easter Islanders had sweet potatos from Peru before the Europeans arrived in the Americas)
42 posted on 02/06/2015 6:22:19 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Arthur McGowan; ProtectOurFreedom; Slyfox; familyop; Eagles6; 2ndDivisionVet; Taliesan; Radix; ...
McGowan: "By the end of the Middle Ages, the rich were sick and tired of subsidizing the feasts and celebrations of the Saints.
One of the results was the relentless propaganda against asking the Saints for their prayers intercession."

Near as I can tell, that is just McGowan's opinion, not the good professor's in the linked video.
As a personal opinion, McGowan's seems oddly out of place on Free Republic, and deserving the same "respect" we hold for caricatures, or satire we might disagree with.

For anyone truly interested in this subject, two books come immediately to mind, one already mentioned by muir_redwoods:

William Manchester: "A World Lit Only By Fire -- The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age"

Barbara Tuchman: "A Distant Mirror -- The Calamitous 14th Century"

43 posted on 02/06/2015 7:00:57 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Arthur McGowan
"They were so dark...."

44 posted on 02/06/2015 7:36:36 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 1010RD
Re: Motel Mystery:

When I was a youth I read National Lampoon. I did not understand some of it.

But a piece that is seared into my memory was a bit about how hundreds of years from now, archeologists find a skeleton of a lady, in a bathtub, with a shower cap on her head, and a shower curtain around the tub, and they conclude it was all part of an elaborate burial ceremony.

You sparked that memory; It was easily 30 years ago.

45 posted on 02/06/2015 7:49:42 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

save


46 posted on 02/06/2015 8:09:55 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No, just the Tea Party.


47 posted on 02/06/2015 8:53:43 AM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Ridicule is a powerful weapon.

It is; which is why I've made several brochures ridiculing the statist mindset entrenched in our government.

48 posted on 02/06/2015 8:53:59 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

+1


49 posted on 02/06/2015 8:58:35 AM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

THERE WERE NO “DARK AGES”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Heinsohn


50 posted on 02/06/2015 9:08:21 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: meow

bfl


51 posted on 02/06/2015 9:16:58 AM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: BenLurkin
"They were so dark...."

I couldn't see my mace in front of me.

Ok, that was bad.

5.56mm

52 posted on 02/06/2015 9:38:26 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

There is a Dark Ages Cold Period, which corresponds to decreased trade, capital formation and record keeping. Historians called it “dark” because there was nothing to read that was written during those times. Testing any hypothesis applicable to those time against primary sources is near impossible. So there is a corresponding lack of scholarship.


53 posted on 02/06/2015 10:26:58 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Is this the Jaki article you are referring to?:

http://www.biblicalchristianworldview.net/documents/musingsJaki.pdf


54 posted on 02/06/2015 10:49:35 AM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Mighty fine craftsmanship there. Some things they really don’t make like they used to.


55 posted on 02/06/2015 11:10:44 AM PST by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Taliesan

(Plus, you can’t think when you’re dead.)
You think?


56 posted on 02/06/2015 11:23:10 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Kommodor

They just took it for granted.


57 posted on 02/06/2015 11:57:47 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: 9thLife; Taliesan

I was considering the historic situation partially in a humorous sense. Consider the point of view of the barbarians. During the Medieval, one man was another man’s barbarian.

Roman: Here they come again, from the north.

Roman propagandist/historian: From the north? Germanic tribes.

Roman, a little later: Here come some other ones, from the north.

Roman propagandist/historian: From the north? Also Germanic tribes.

Roman, a little later yet: Uh...even farther from the north.

Roman propagandist/historian: Yes, Germanic tribes, too.

To the present...

Present-day Roman propagandist/historian: this latest archeological find proves that we’re descended from ancient Nordic peoples.

;-)


58 posted on 02/06/2015 12:12:19 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 9thLife; Taliesan

The hypothetical discussion was set in the 300s, by the way (Franks, Vandals, Lombards, all). Oh, and most of us probably have some Hun genes...and more.


59 posted on 02/06/2015 12:21:59 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: BenLurkin

“...the Sith looked like Jedi.”


60 posted on 02/06/2015 1:03:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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