Actually, the Dark Ages ended in 1348, more or less, when the Black Death killed all the clergy and ushered in the Renaissance.
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Everybody who’s anybody agrees with me. See : Faye Getz, ‘Black Death and the Silver Lining: Meaning, Continuity, and Revolutionary Change in Histories of Medieval Plague,’ Journal of the History of Biology 24(1991) 265-89.
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The end of 0% science.
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Don't forget how non-white people were discovered then as well
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Ooooh, lovely tweet... 'Dark' Ages. Was it really though? A philosophical quandary.
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Don’t get Dr J started on subject of Dark Ages

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for me it was when Poggio Bracciolini, spaghetti chef to Cosimo de'Medici, saved the last copy of De Rerum Natura from being burned by Pope Boniface III and reintroduced the clinamen to Western cuisine, thus unleashing war, revolution, terror and extremism
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Also the idea that there was no science. Of course there was. Mathematics, Navigation, Architecture, the science of glass production, manuscript production (dyes, vellum, gesso, inks and tanning) metallurgy. Science Science Science everywhere.
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You're tsking him seriously, aren't you?
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