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.
On contrarian history – Going Medieval
https://going-medieval.com/2025/11/25/on-contrarian-history/
https://going-medieval.com/2025/11/25/on-contrarian-history/
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.
9 Comments
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 282d
Can we get more historical knowledge distributed this way?
And applied directly to my face?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 282d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 282d
ok but I get to watch.
apotheotic@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 281d
OK but I get to wear the booty shorts
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 282d
Ignorant layperson here, less ignorant now. Thank you.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 282d
It's been a long time since I've had so much fun learning so much about history. Gimme more. GIMME
IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 281d
This was a great read! Had a lot of fun with it and got educated.
azi@mander.xyz · -1 pts · 281d
no the term pretty universally refers to intellectual decline. that's why historians no longer use it
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz · -1 pts · 281d
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.