/lit/ - Literature

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Because most people think the middle ages were some type of dark period of anarchy and violence, a view fabricated by the romantics. They fail to look at any new contemporary historians who talk about the middle ages. The middle ages might not have produced much literature but they were extremely keen on preserving the past. As seen by the Carolingian Renaissance and the Byzantines.

Bernard De Chartres:
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”