More Modern Myths: The Middle Ages

a time of terrors and trials, a time of fear and ignorance, a time...of the establishment of universities?

There are so many myths about the Middle Ages, it has to be suspected that the general level of "knowledge" about things medieval is actually negative.

Here are some of the more famous ones...

A book, Regine Pernoud's Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths tackles a number at once ... review. There is a new book on the scientific aspects, James Hannam's God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science.