Literature: The Dark Ages

Since the dawn of time man has forged their existence into the very essence of earth and through the blood sweat and tears have embedded it throughout the ages to come. The middle Ages as perceived to be the dark ages was not entirely in a sense of pure and hellish anarchy as viewed by its name, if we were to view it from a historical perspective we can see that the dark ages represented a key foundation in bridging the classical and modern aspects of society but due the time lapse an epoch of illiteracy, barbarism, corruption we come to understand this time period as the dark ages. The dark ages can ultimately be defined with three prominent factors such as the rise and reform of literature, the revival of monarch control and reinvestment …show more content…
The popes in European society where using the money and funds that they received to renovated the church in which they hired painters and architects, they used the wealth they amass to satisfy their own personal desires and created a schism between believers and the popes as they believed the papacy lost their faith and were concerned with wealth than the spirit. It was not till sometime during that period that the church started to gain significant ground and saw a religious revival and once again had the faith of the masses. The role of the church wasn’t very significant during the ages of old such as the renaissance; they accumulated a great deal of power, to be precise the church was the counter balance and the power to keep the equilibrium from one man having absolute power, to be able to rule in this time period he must be ordained by god and to go against the church is to against god. This particular time period in history saw the pope had more power than the king and the king was merely a figurehead, to go against his oath or not to receive the popes blessing would lead to excommunication (translated in lateral terms kicked out of heaven). The fear of being excommunicated leaded to the paying of tithes to be readmitted into the house of god, basically a bribe to be accepted in which the church gained more power. The stable force in life during the medieval …show more content…
Around this time in the late 1320’s the Bubonic plaque or the black death would erupt from the Gobi desert and travel along the silk road and into Europe nearly wiping out the population, with this much added chaos and confusion in the midst of society people sought the means of technological innovation and this gave way to the rise of the early Renaissance, the black death the precursor to the renaissance as it enabled scholars, scientists to view the way in which they lived their daily lives. Initially the Renaissance began during the late middle ages and is a former part of the dark ages as there is not enough recorded data to decipher an accurate precision of time, so it is widely believed by historians that the dark ages and the renaissance times overlapped into one convergence to a certain degree. During this time of realization, what has become to be known as the renaissance this brought about the revival of literature, art and humanism, the notion of literature was not widely perceived during this time period in fact it was a very alienated subject. The birth of the renaissance gave people ideas and new vision and found faith they shifted further away from the church, the protestant reformation caused the weakening of the roman church and started too moved to the idea of humanism a new found concept. The ideas and philosophy of