The Middle Ages
Title: The Middle Ages
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 880 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Middle Ages
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 880 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Question:
Over the past five hundred years, scholars have disagreed in their assessments of the Middle Ages. Some have seen the period "as a sterile age in which government had degenerated into feudal anarchy, religion into superstition, and scholarship into pedantic quibbles of schoolmen over texts that they scarcely understood" and whose main value was in transmitting--though imperfectly--some legacy of more glorious Creco-Roman past to those who followed. On the other hand, some have
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no real contributions to the modern area then what am I doing now?
The question is absurd and only an ignorant mind, no matter how many degrees or awards for whatever they have, could believe that the Middle Ages was a "sterile" period
in history. Maybe they should read more into history and stop putting presentism into their work.
Works Cited:
Coffin, Judith G. "Western Civilization." W.W. Norton and Company, New York - London, 2002