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Bastard Son.
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Age: 19
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Posts: 9047 | May 31st, 2008 at 10:23pm Do you know why the name Dark Ages?
Do you know any reasons behind the sudden halt in the development of the human civilization?
Do you think this phenomenon could have been avoided?
The unavoidable and omnipresent involvement of Church?
Where is the line between religion and fanaticism? The Medieval Inquisition?
How does the legacy of that time affect the modern era? |
Peter Petrelli.
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Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 26797 | May 31st, 2008 at 10:28pm I know it affected medical training.
I learnt that much from History.
I think it could have been avoided, especially in medical development. The restictions the church had regarding that was ridiculous in my opinion.
I think the world would have developed, things that were discovered in the Renaissance would have been discovered then, and we'd be living in a more advanced world. |
kafka.
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Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 3011 | May 31st, 2008 at 10:50pm
If you think about it, the little progress that was done in arts was done with the help of the Church. Almost all painters painted for the Church, amazing Churches were built during that period, and just think ...Divina Commedia.
The Church also played an important role in the Renaissance. Ancient Latin and Greek texts where at the heart of the whole movement, and they were all kept in monastery libraries. Church patronized many works of Renaissance art. The Michelangelo example comes to mind, he worked for several popes. Also many Renaissance works of art were devoted to the Church/Christianity.
If the church wouldn't have had such a strong influence and wouldn't have been so strong [and rich] the Renaissance probably wouldn't have ever happened either.
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Bastard Son.
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Posts: 9047 | May 31st, 2008 at 11:00pm That is true, good point. BUT, what about science? Education? Aversion towards everything that was advance and new?
And Divina Commedia is a pure case of clever criticism towards the Church and the society and it derives from the early beginnings of Renaissance.
The Church also banished Dante in a way for opposing the views of the pope and burned almost all of Botticelli's paintings, no?
What about witch-hunt and the Crusades? Feudalism? |
vengeance.
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Age: 26
Gender: Male
Posts: 554 | June 3rd, 2008 at 09:14pm The witch hunt was very unfortunate. Many innocent were killed, without proper ruling, many were burned and so on. Just because someone thought they were supernatural.
Even if witches were real, many would have been killed off, and many wouldn't show it. We have no scientific proof.
Nor did they have scientific proof in the dark ages, but that didn't stop them. Children were taught what is right, and what is wrong. They had no choice. |
oreo cookie.
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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Posts: 882 | June 4th, 2008 at 11:56am I, being atheist, think that the influence of the Church in those times was extremely over the top. I haven't really heard anything much that proves that the influence of the Church was a good or even helpful (in a sense) thing in those times. It drew back many a opportunity for people to extend the scientific knowledge of our world and the rest of the universe.
It is unfortunate that the children grew up to be so devout to their religion that they attempted to part water like Moses supposedly did and drowned or were taken as slaves just for the Children's Crusade. A fight for their country and their beliefs. It shows how the influence of the Bible was so iron-fist that they never quite understood that gravity makes those sorts of things impossible. |
The Lovecraft
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Posts: 476 | June 6th, 2008 at 06:02pm I think there's a pretty big tendency of hating the Church for what happened in those times. Besides banishing what was considered a heresy, the Church also organised orphanages and kept manuscripts in huge-ass libraries.
Sure, they were Puritans, and may have done a lot of evil, but in some cases that was really what they thought right, let alone corruption issues.
And hey, in a screwed up way, we have the Church to thank for Renaissance. Had the priests and the pope not been so evil, corrup, rich, and generally not the way they should have been, we would have nothing to talk about when thinking of the XIV-XVI centuries.
I do think witch hunts, the Inquisition, and all the Puritan stuff were messed up, don't get me wrong, but don't ask me to be all 21st century minded about it, because they certainly weren't. |
Rachelish
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Age: 17
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Posts: 198 | July 2nd, 2008 at 08:15am The reason that the period in time refered to as the "Dark Ages" is referred to as such because it held the time of the witch hunts, knights and Kings taking more than they deserved, and seiges.
In fact this time was mostly a joyful time, In the 'Dark Ages' music was founded and so was art, plays were performed, with men only, men played woman. This era was the start of music, imho.
The church was so important because they had their own soldiers and owned any sacred land, because they had so much money the Kings needed the church to be on their side. The head of the church was almost as important as the King in some instances and could control whole city's.
These are my thoughts based on no research. |
Bells.
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Age: 15
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Posts: 1071 | August 5th, 2008 at 11:55am Didn't the church ban all the art and... stuff? I'm really a n00b at this...  |
Evanescent Dasha
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Posts: 895 | August 6th, 2008 at 04:36am Dasha:Didn't the church ban all the art and... stuff? I'm really a n00b at this...
If the art potrayed any blasphemy it was possible that it would get burnt. But those paintings rarely happened due to the fact the church controlled what the artist painted. Before a painting was done the church had to approve it or give the painter the idea. That's why almost all paintings from the middle ages are bible themed. |
