Why Did The Early Middle Ages Really Exist?

In the article “Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?” by Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz, Niemitz elaborates on his own theory regarding the validity of the recorded timeline, events and people of the middle ages. I disagree with Niemitz claim that a portion of the middle ages was fabricated. Niemitz claims that the rulers in Europe would want to seem more auspicious and powerful and therefore would also most likely be politically motivated to maintain their power by changing the calendar and fabricating historical records. In the middle ages, I think that although there was a very strong reliance on the church, a lot of people in Europe were still illiterate and therefore probably also less knowledgeable on the time and year. I think that things like the time and year would only …show more content…
Europe was not the only country that valued time and calendars. Personally, I think that if there were truth to this idea, people would have figured it out a long time ago. Even if European records are not completely grounded in fact, people outside of Europe could and did make careful documentation of events throughout history.I could understand if niemitz is sceptical about whether the chronological timeline of the middle ages is correct since it was such a “dark” time in Europe. However,claiming that whole monarchies and events were fabricated just to change the calendar seems to far fetched. And frankly I don’t believe that they would have had to do all that in the first place in order to convince the largely uneducated masses.By claiming this Niemitz is also saying that other notable figures from around the world and the events that they were involved are false.If this theory were true then that means that what we thought we knew about human history is incorrect. It would mean that our calendar is wrong because we based it off of a system that fabricated a hundreds of