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This 3 page paper explores the middle ages. Were the dark ages really dark? Various questions are explored. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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speak. Of course, the dark ages is attached to a specific period of time in history, which is a part of the early middle ages. Similarly, when the Renaissance would
emerge, people would see it as something that was exciting. Yet, one important thing is the fact that these names to which current historians attach a time period is done
in retrospect. That is, the people at the time did not know they were living in a particular age. Those who lived during the Renaissance for example, did not think
of themselves as Renaissance men (DSouza, 2007). That is, the names of time periods were attached later on. In examining the Dark Ages, one has to wonder whether or not
the time period deserves such a dismal label. Is the term "Dark Ages" a misnomer? Petrarch is the individual who coined the term and he lived around the period too.
His intent at calling it a dark age was to suggest that it was barbaric and contained a great deal of low culture (Nauert, 1995). Obviously, and similar to DSouzas
(2007) remark, the judgment in terms of culture is subjective. People today for example look at the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries and remark that it was so primitive. Yet, that
is a time that came after the Renaissance when everything changed a great deal. The Renaissance period is attached to new ways of creative thinking and emerging arts. It
was a period of time that occurred just after the dark ages. Yet, the Protestant Reformation came soon afterwards. The meld of changes that had come before and afterwards would
set the stage for a dramatic change in the world. The Renaissance depicted a time between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries when many developments did arise. Craig et al. (2005)
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