Subject: What is the Dark Ages |
Bible Note: CDBJ, Dark as in the absense of the light of Christ and the absence of the light of pagan Classical civilization and knowledge. Also in terms of the darkness of ignorance and violence of the Barbarians. But generally sepaking secular historians are thinking of the absence of the light of Classical culture and civilization and education. Christian historians also include the light of Christ and Christianity. The light of secular classical knowlege and the light of Christ was gradually restored in the West by missionary monks send out from Italy and Ireland where the faith and learing had survived and been preserved in the monasteries and the cathedral schools. Secular historians historians define the "Modern Age" as beginning at the fall of Constantinople around 1450 A.D. Christians tend to think more aroud the time of the Reformation about 75 years later. So the Middle Ages are defined and bracketed by the Fall of the Wetern Roman empire in 476 A.D and the final Fall of the Eastern Empire in 1453 A.D. My degree is actually in Theater Arts from a State University the late 60s and early 70s.. It was interesting to hear, even that most secular and non Chritian environment, how even the renaisance of modern drama and theater came from the Catherdral Schools of the Middle Ages and their Morality Plays also known as Cycle Plays. The one most English speaking people are familiar withis Everyman, which was pasrt of Cycle group of Morality plays. Ancient Greek Theater also grew out of Greek the ancient Greek religion. In fact a study of history will show that almost all if not all civilizations and their cultures are rooted in religion no matter how political and entwined with politics they may be or become as they develope. Emmaus EMMAUS |