NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Song Dynasty, Eric Harris And Dylan Klebold, Stirrup
25 Aug 2016
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Introduction why would it be a mistake to call the medieval period the dark. The term dark ages is problematic for two reasons. First, although both natural philosophy and the technical arts were in relative decline in europe during the early medieval period, the same was not true in other parts of the world. Falsely believed islamic scholars were mere translators, imitators of. Greeks who are given credit only for translating works into arabic when instead they contributed a lot in their fields; in fact, historians like alnoor. Dhanani argue that islamic scholars not only translated but expanded on work; were more critical of content. Knowledge was translated into arabic and then travelled to europe, where it was translated back to latin; this means that natural philosophy contributions were ignored for a long time. Another reason why this term is problematic is because in the later medieval period, both natural philosophy and the technical arts gained importance in.
