The Medieval Ages: The Dark Ages

The Medieval Ages has been commonly depicted as a gruesome time in European History earning its popular name of The Dark Ages. The Medieval Ages owns characteristics earning its name of The Dark Ages, but the Medieval Ages brought forth much more. Every era holds its darkness, why is history neglecting the good of the Medieval Ages, the light? This era is underestimated. If the Medieval Ages were so dark with no significance, why would it be such a popular topic to this day? Why study it, why read its literature? What is it that makes them so dark? The lack of knowledge in medicine? The plague? These things were inevitable. The Medieval Ages does not deserve to have been given the name The Dark Ages.
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The people did not know much or even the smartest and richest of them. Especially in the field of medicine was the knowledge extremely low. It is due to this lack of knowledge in medicine that the Medieval Ages are depicted as dark or gruesome. If someone was sick the most popular way to heal them was to drain them of some blood to let the infection leave the body. A very important fact that was not known then was how diseases spread through germs, the people had no knowledge of this at all making it incredibly easy for a disease to spread like wildfire. An image portraying a hospital showing several infected bodies and the suffering of the people makes people believe the darkness of this time.(13) It is not just to say that it is a dark era when the main reason that it is known as dark was inevitable then. Today medicine technology does nothing, but progress with the exception of the new technology and books. In the Medieval Ages there were little to no books to study from or learn from. The teachers did not know much either. Although with few information and few teachers during this time came universities. Where the richest could attend to, “... University of Heidelberg shall be ruled, disposed, and regulated according to the modes and manners accustomed to be observed in the University of Paris.” (5) Few were educated due to how expensive it was to go to a university. There was few knowledge of during the Medieval Ages, however it was the speed of learning new things, inventions, etc. that was slow. A big break in the field of science was Roger Bacon who came to find out the need for a scientific method, “ Having laid down the main points of the wisdom of the Latins as regards language, mathematics and optics, I wish now to review the principles of wisdom from the point of view of experimental science, because without experiment it is impossible to know anything thoroughly.”