http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/04/why-the-middle-ages-are-called-the-dark-ages/

http://www.strangenotions.com/gods-philosophers/

dropping off some sources for any budding medievalists itt.

buh muh history class o the dark ages

Quote from: Ender on October 07, 2015, 07:55:14 PM

buh muh history class o the dark ages

A lot of History class is half-truths and bs.

I had to create an anti-Napoleon presentation with a group, and the teacher assigned me 3 pages from a text for reference. The other 7 pages were putting those 3 pages into context. In the end I found out more information supporting Napoleon than the pro-Napoleon group did.

yeah.

a lot of people, even honors and AP students, come out of high school with only a rudimentary understanding of history itself, and a pathetic ignorance of the various disciplinary frameworks which support the pursuit of historical knowledge. STEM kids who understand theoretical physics or advanced calculus but cant write a historiography or review an academic piece for shit. its sad, really... and the historical discipline as a whole gets a bad rep because everyone thinks of college as a job factory, and they think historians have no real world skills, so no one gets interested in history and they have kids that dont care about it and the ignorance begets itself again and again.