What do they call the period of Eurpoean history where christianity dominated every aspect of life?

Question

From government, art, philosophy, literature all the way down to every day life, Christianity was the driving force.

incidentaly, I had a medieval history proffessor who hated calling that period the Dark Ages too. He loved to point out that people weren't as stupid then as everyone seems to believe. Be that as it may, however, you look in history books on the internet or wherever you like and you'll find that the era from the Fall of Rome to around 1000 CE is generally referred to as the "Dark Ages"

Intresting history, Dhaxem, however, the Cathars were around in the High Middle Ages, not the Dark Ages. Of course, the High Middle Ages was still a pretty christian dominated time. Inquisition anyone?

Answer 1

To western society, Knowledge, science, learning and growing are examples of a civilized society. During this time there was no books written other than the bible. and there was no advancements in science or freedom or learning. Death was everywhere. It truly was a dark age for Europeans. For everybody else it was pretty good. The dark ages came later for other races.

Answer 2

Dark ages, of course, but this was due to the Church's politics of power, persecution, oppresion of the Truth, and expansionism.

However, it was at the height of the "Dark Age", when probably the brightest spot in history occured. Here another example of the great dialectic of life! The Cathar culture in the South of France flourished in the 12th and 13th Century, up to the annihilation of the Cathars by the pope and his army in 1244.

The Cathars had the first ever real democracy, their leaders lived in humility, and the people in comfort. It was a theocratic state that posessed the knowledge of the true teachings of Christ, and its leaders lived up to them. They were wonderful healers and they put great emphasis on education, logic, and knowledge. By the example of their society, the Cathars attracted more and more attention of other communities that wanted to join them. They became "dangerous" to the pope and the reactionary nobility. Crusades against them were initiated, and their last stronghold, the Montsegur, fell on the 16th March 1244. Thomas De Montsegur, the leader of the Cathars, was burnt at the stake, and the rest of the unarmed men women and children were driven alive into bonfires in which they burned to death. Now, how many people in today's industrialised world dominated by Christianity as much as heard about the Cathars? Here the proof that give Church a chance, it would keep the dark ages forever, and would keep humanity in ignorance about the Truth, and its own crimes against humaity.

It had been prophecied that the Cathars will return to Earth at the beginniing of the 21st Century. Their teachings, the true teachings of Christ that the Church burried forever, are now available, expressed in entirely logical terms, in "Rational Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website.
For more on the Cathars, click on "What is Spirituality".

Answer 3

The Dark Ages.

Answer 4

Dark ages

Answer 5

Christianity began as a small cult... maximum Jews had never even heard of Jesus before everything of the basic era. A small band of Jews who had started following Jesus tried to cajole different Jews that the Messiah had come... with little success... so this small Jesus cult desperate to unfold the know-how to the gentiles quite. yet they had complication changing the gentiles to Judaism, because Jewish traditions have been so strict and have been truly confusing to maintain on with for those no longer suggested Jewish-- think of them working around telling a number of Pagans they had to pass kosher and get circumsized and learn Hebrew and learn the Torah impulsively. It did no longer fly. They desperate that the old covenant replaced into no longer mandatory and to dispense with many of the Jewish regulations. With that, extra gentiles got here on board. Little wallet of those Jesus cults began organising church homes that have been beginning to flourish in diverse places. and of direction, while Constantine desperate he necessary a extra conservative faith to purpose and tame the wild, self-unfavorable habit of the Romans, and he introduced leaders of those church homes jointly, compiled the Christian Bible and unified Christianity, the church replaced into solidified.

Answer 6

Web search Eratosthenes. This Greek mathematician was phenomenal. Working with data from 2 points not on the equator, he calculated the equatorial circumference of the earth... a couple hundred years BEFORE CHRIST! (And "they say" people all thought the earth was flat. :-)

Answer 7

hey guys, i am not a Christian but my friend is an historian. She says there is no such thing as the Dark Ages.

Answer 8

your dark humor amazes me, remember during that period the Arabs had a big influence

Answer 9

Christendumb.

Ack! -dom!

Answer 10

dark ages...and your friend is retarded