Most of us
received information in History about “Dark Ages”, or “Middle Ages” as a time
of ignorance, superstition, disrespect, prejudice, etc., and other “negative”
things, and that all of these was overcome with Renascence, Humanism and
Enlightenment.
Currently
historians know that Dark Ages were not so dark… Middle Ages were not so ignorant…
In true, the names Renascence and Humanism were fixed centuries after they occurred.
Men of Enlightenment saw their own time as a “time of light”, under the “light
of reason” and Middle Ages as a “time of obscurity”. Dark Ages and Middle Ages
are concepts created later then the supposed eras. Throw research historians
now know that at those times it was light and darkness, as in anytime. We do
not know which century was better or worst. Each century has its light and its
darkness. Sometimes it seems that the 20th century could be the
worst, other times it seems that could be the best. Anyway, we could say that
we are now in a “macro shift” in history, or we could say that we are in
after-postmodern times. We are not sure about “new ages”... But, as in all human
history, light and darkness are still around…
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