Fabulous video. The author and narrator mentions the approximately one millennia of medieval times, and that he has studied the end of that period. One of his motivations for picking that time frame is because it is reasonably well documented.
There is also the common time period phrase “the dark ages.”
CoPilot helps contrast the two:
Similarities and Differences Between the Medieval Period and the “Dark Ages”
The Medieval period and the “Dark Ages” are often confused because they both refer to parts of Europe’s history after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but they are not the same.
Medieval period
Timeframe: Roughly 5th to 15th century CE, spanning the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.
Scope: A broad historical era covering major developments such as the rise of feudalism, the growth of monasteries, the Crusades, the revival of learning, Gothic architecture, and the emergence of universities thisvsthat.
Characteristics: Included both periods of decline and significant cultural, political, and economic growth. The High Middle Ages (11th–13th centuries) saw a “renaissance” in art, science, and governance.
“Dark Ages”
Timeframe: Typically refers to the Early Middle Ages (about 5th–10th centuries).
Origin of the term: Coined in the 14th century by Petrarch to contrast the supposed “darkness” of post-Roman Europe with the “light” of classical antiquity.
Characteristics: Marked by political fragmentation, limited written records, economic decline, and reduced urbanization. However, it also saw cultural preservation in monasteries, especially in Ireland and monastic centers.
Modern view: Historians now avoid the term due to its negative connotations and misleading portrayal of the era.
Similarities
Both periods followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Both were shaped by feudalism and a Christian-dominated society.
Both experienced invasions, warfare, and religious influence.
Differences
Time span: The Medieval period is much longer (500–1500 CE) and includes the “Dark Ages” as its first phase.
Cultural perception: The “Dark Ages” label emphasizes decline and ignorance, while the Medieval period encompasses both decline and flourishing.
Development: The Medieval period saw later advances in agriculture, trade, science, and the arts, especially in the High Middle Ages.
Historiography: “Dark Ages” is a 19th-century label; Medieval period is a recognized, comprehensive era.
In short: The “Dark Ages” is a subset of the Medieval period, specifically the early phase marked by instability and limited records, while the Medieval period as a whole is a dynamic, evolving era with both challenges and achievements that set the stage for the Renaissance.
One of the books that I’ve read suggests (and couldn’t really prove or verify) is that the dark ages were dark primarily because there was not a lot of documentation of what was happening. The above CoPilot piece suggests that things were in decline during that period, but that’s not the same as no documentation. This book (How the West Won) thought that maybe life was generally pretty good, but there just wasn’t the need to write events down.
The big items were the black plague (much later than the dark ages) and the frequent wars. Also, the little ice age had a big impact, but again, much much later in time. CoPilot mentions political fragmentation. If there isn’t a dominant emperor or big empire building going on, then there is less to document.
Well, we all know that Dark Ages Matter…
(though it’s been quite a while that the label has gotten a lot of pushback.)
Here‘s another whose bright reputation, at least on the part of the usual authoritarian-adjacent suspects, is being, er, radically reassessed…(though this has been going on for some time now)…
The first known outbreak of the plague in Europe was in 541-549. It was a contributing factor to the weakening of the Eastern Empire and its vulnerability to the Arab invasions of the following century.
On Jan. 25, 2021, Fauci told CDC Director Walensky and Vivek Murthy that the fever and cytokine storm a lot of people get after dose 2 “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Both of them called it a good point.
Days later he was on camera saying there were “no red flags” for pregnant women. By August it was flat-out “pregnant women should get vaccinated.”
Humble me is not saying he knew the shots were causing mass miscarriages and buried it – the texts call the risk theoretical, and Fauci himself noted the first 10,000+ vaccinated pregnant women hadn’t shown problems. The bigger studies that came later haven’t shown a clear increase either.
But there’s a gap between what he said behind closed doors and what he told the public, and that’s the real issue. Pregnant women deserved “here’s a theoretical concern we’re watching,” not the fully confident version. Caution in private, certainty on camera – that’s the pattern, and it’s exactly why a lot of people quit taking him at his word.
Barry Meislin
“Cambridge University is fighting hard to lead the pack in the Doubling-Down Olympics…”
The whole government funded education establishment, and particularly the universities are the most evil institutions in the United States. That is why, as I mentioned in another thread, I am focusing my charity, giving on fighting them. That may not be much but it’s better than doing nothing.
File under: Nihilism (or should that be “Stupidity”?) über alles…though I suppose Occam would probably say, “They’ve most likely sold their soul (to the highest bidder)…
Just saw Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Considering that he was nearly killed by a crazed Democrat, he looked and spoke well. Lots of energy. No limp or problem with his gait.
Two armed agents with him. Good.
Very fascinating. Please continue with the videos.
I imagine that the period from about 500 to 1000 did have advancements, but very slowly. Communications of advancements wasn’t very quick.
Buttons? This guy thinks he can tell us about buttons? This is the iPhone age, with us pushing buttons all day! Just sayin’. . .
I MISSED THIS GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT from almost a week ago. But a comment at Instapundit pointed me to X.com.
The Cambridge University historian of Cold War spying who had her life and career destroyed by ObamaGate, has a new book coming out, “The Grand Conspiracy.” And this road leads to President Obama.
…“the Grand Conspiracy,” all the fake “intelligence” against Donald Trump was manufactured at Cambridge University in England by a bunch of CIA and MI6 spies, paid by Obama, she writes on X.com.
Lakhova continues: “Genius” Andy McCabe, who opened the investigation against the President, thought it was funny to call it Oxford and misspell it to hide it.
In reply to John Solomon, below on X.com, announcing that newly declassified FBI documents about an op code named “Oxferd C0mma” — in order to defeat FOIA oversight detection — was now released
These documents reveal a wide ranging criminal conspiracy to investigate President Trump from May of 2017, on the false premise that somehow Trump was a Russian-Putin agent.
I’ve been eager to read Svetlana’s findings. I think her story cries out for a movie treatment! If the prosecution fails or remains paltry, we need a new and revised version of “All The President’s Men” to hound Obama with an evil and deserved reputation for crime lasting a century.
THIS is the beginning of that end.
Thanks TJ.
The Cambridge Jive…reincarnated…
A great scoop.
Yes, she really got screwed by sleazebag Stefan Halper et al.
For more “Now it can be told” true confessions, there’s this not terribly surprising tid-bit:
Good post from Sasha Stone.
She flays the Democrats’ hypocrisy without ever quite saying the only principles they have are double ones: the ones for them, and the ones for the rest of us.
Always worth reading in full, but this is the money quote:
We’ll hear it every time someone brings up Hasan Piker: “We have to get over cancel culture.”
I almost fell off my chair. Now they’re noticing cancel culture? Now they want to end it just so they can snuggle up to one of the most vile people in the influencer lane because he has a lot of followers?
…
I would love it if cancel culture was really over, but it isn’t. These Democratic Socialists are lying. They aren’t giving up their most powerful weapon against the Right: that they own everything and run everything in most of our culture and our institutions.
They have been abusing that power for ten years. I, for one, am happy to see it splash back on their faces like toilet water. They deserve it.
If cancel culture is over, let it be over. Give up your power over all of us to decide who can say what and what people have to believe. Let’s all be one country again. Every person who voted for Trump knows how they’re treated by most of our cultural overlords every single day for ten years.
End it, and then we’ll stop talking about Hasan Piker.
Well, maybe not stop, because they are still going to be supporting him.
And they started “getting over cancel culture” with Graham Plattner.
Thanks for the notice, Barry — and your links.
The Instapundit one is on widespread distrust because of vote insecurity.
Down in the Comments,a couple by one “Don Reynolds” — Glenn Reynolds historian-brother I presume?
Here’s th3 second one and my reply:
DonReynolds G6LøQ*
14 hours ago
I will just wedge this tidbit into the convo, ?right here……
During the 2020 election, ?142,000 votes were cast by persons who were NOT ?on the voter registration list in the Detroit vicinity. ?
When the governor was confronted with this fact, ?she said “it cannot be explained, but there was ?definitely no voter fraud.”
To DonReynolds
YEAH. We are fucked without real voting legitimacy.
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Cambridge University is fighting hard to lead the pack in the Doubling-Down Olympics…
“Cambridge University: first the Jason Arday disaster, now this….”
https://instapundit.com/815913/
Fabulous video. The author and narrator mentions the approximately one millennia of medieval times, and that he has studied the end of that period. One of his motivations for picking that time frame is because it is reasonably well documented.
There is also the common time period phrase “the dark ages.”
CoPilot helps contrast the two:
One of the books that I’ve read suggests (and couldn’t really prove or verify) is that the dark ages were dark primarily because there was not a lot of documentation of what was happening. The above CoPilot piece suggests that things were in decline during that period, but that’s not the same as no documentation. This book (How the West Won) thought that maybe life was generally pretty good, but there just wasn’t the need to write events down.
The big items were the black plague (much later than the dark ages) and the frequent wars. Also, the little ice age had a big impact, but again, much much later in time. CoPilot mentions political fragmentation. If there isn’t a dominant emperor or big empire building going on, then there is less to document.
Well, we all know that Dark Ages Matter…
(though it’s been quite a while that the label has gotten a lot of pushback.)
Here‘s another whose bright reputation, at least on the part of the usual authoritarian-adjacent suspects, is being, er, radically reassessed…(though this has been going on for some time now)…
“…Angela Merkel Admits the Globalist Plan With Mass Migration.”—
https://instapundit.com/815933/
The first known outbreak of the plague in Europe was in 541-549. It was a contributing factor to the weakening of the Eastern Empire and its vulnerability to the Arab invasions of the following century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
New texts just released by Sens. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul from Fauci’s government iPhone:
On Jan. 25, 2021, Fauci told CDC Director Walensky and Vivek Murthy that the fever and cytokine storm a lot of people get after dose 2 “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Both of them called it a good point.
Days later he was on camera saying there were “no red flags” for pregnant women. By August it was flat-out “pregnant women should get vaccinated.”
Humble me is not saying he knew the shots were causing mass miscarriages and buried it – the texts call the risk theoretical, and Fauci himself noted the first 10,000+ vaccinated pregnant women hadn’t shown problems. The bigger studies that came later haven’t shown a clear increase either.
But there’s a gap between what he said behind closed doors and what he told the public, and that’s the real issue. Pregnant women deserved “here’s a theoretical concern we’re watching,” not the fully confident version. Caution in private, certainty on camera – that’s the pattern, and it’s exactly why a lot of people quit taking him at his word.
Barry Meislin
“Cambridge University is fighting hard to lead the pack in the Doubling-Down Olympics…”
The whole government funded education establishment, and particularly the universities are the most evil institutions in the United States. That is why, as I mentioned in another thread, I am focusing my charity, giving on fighting them. That may not be much but it’s better than doing nothing.
Venomous snake uncovered in football player’s helmet after he practiced for an hour with it next to his head YIKES!!
Right, but it sure makes ye’ wonder what kind of game they think they’re playing.
(They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.)
“DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE…”
https://instapundit.com/815973/
File under: Nihilism (or should that be “Stupidity”?) über alles…though I suppose Occam would probably say, “They’ve most likely sold their soul (to the highest bidder)…
Just saw Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Considering that he was nearly killed by a crazed Democrat, he looked and spoke well. Lots of energy. No limp or problem with his gait.
Two armed agents with him. Good.
Very fascinating. Please continue with the videos.
I imagine that the period from about 500 to 1000 did have advancements, but very slowly. Communications of advancements wasn’t very quick.
Buttons? This guy thinks he can tell us about buttons? This is the iPhone age, with us pushing buttons all day! Just sayin’. . .
I MISSED THIS GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT from almost a week ago. But a comment at Instapundit pointed me to X.com.
The Cambridge University historian of Cold War spying who had her life and career destroyed by ObamaGate, has a new book coming out, “The Grand Conspiracy.” And this road leads to President Obama.
https://x.com/RealSLokhova/status/2084996631796281658
Svetlana Lakhova announces her new NEW BOOK:
…“the Grand Conspiracy,” all the fake “intelligence” against Donald Trump was manufactured at Cambridge University in England by a bunch of CIA and MI6 spies, paid by Obama, she writes on X.com.
Lakhova continues: “Genius” Andy McCabe, who opened the investigation against the President, thought it was funny to call it Oxford and misspell it to hide it.
In reply to John Solomon, below on X.com, announcing that newly declassified FBI documents about an op code named “Oxferd C0mma” — in order to defeat FOIA oversight detection — was now released
These documents reveal a wide ranging criminal conspiracy to investigate President Trump from May of 2017, on the false premise that somehow Trump was a Russian-Putin agent.
I’ve been eager to read Svetlana’s findings. I think her story cries out for a movie treatment! If the prosecution fails or remains paltry, we need a new and revised version of “All The President’s Men” to hound Obama with an evil and deserved reputation for crime lasting a century.
THIS is the beginning of that end.
Thanks TJ.
The Cambridge Jive…reincarnated…
A great scoop.
Yes, she really got screwed by sleazebag Stefan Halper et al.
For more “Now it can be told” true confessions, there’s this not terribly surprising tid-bit:
THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS HAPPENED AGAIN
https://instapundit.com/816077/
This should be rather interesting…if it comes to anything (which seems very doubtful):
“Florida Seeks NY Times Internal Documents Over Errors In Israel-Hamas War Coverage”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/florida-seeks-ny-times-internal-documents-over-errors-israel-hamas-war-coverage
Good post from Sasha Stone.
She flays the Democrats’ hypocrisy without ever quite saying the only principles they have are double ones: the ones for them, and the ones for the rest of us.
Always worth reading in full, but this is the money quote:
https://www.sashastone.com/p/democrats-shocked-by-the-cancel-culture
Well, maybe not stop, because they are still going to be supporting him.
And they started “getting over cancel culture” with Graham Plattner.
Thanks for the notice, Barry — and your links.
The Instapundit one is on widespread distrust because of vote insecurity.
Down in the Comments,a couple by one “Don Reynolds” — Glenn Reynolds historian-brother I presume?
Here’s th3 second one and my reply:
DonReynolds G6LøQ*
14 hours ago
I will just wedge this tidbit into the convo, ?right here……
During the 2020 election, ?142,000 votes were cast by persons who were NOT ?on the voter registration list in the Detroit vicinity. ?
When the governor was confronted with this fact, ?she said “it cannot be explained, but there was ?definitely no voter fraud.”
To DonReynolds
YEAH. We are fucked without real voting legitimacy.