Research Paper On The Dark Ages

Often referred to as the “dark ages”, a phrase first introduced by Renaissance scholar Petrarch, the term referred to medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. As Petrarch so eloquently puts it, the “dark ages” received their name because of a lack of progress in education, social and entertainment, however, the “dark ages” saw dramatic rise in new national and cultural identities across the European continent. By replacing one vast large empire, new smaller ruling monarchies such as the Germanic tribes and the Frankish empire developed. Petrarch also argued that war in the name of Christianity expansion engulfed the European continent. The year 1100 marked drastic climate changed for the better, people began to migrate into cities and
Romanticism is a great part of the modern view of the middle ages. Those modern views include the middle ages discussion of chivalry, romantic, courtly love, and the knight’s code; a modern American view of chivalry is that of a knight in shining armor saving a fair maiden upon his noble white steed. One of the most famous courtly love men is known as Arthur Pendragon, King of the Britons. Numerous adaptations of Briton’s hero King Arthur exist. Beginning with the first record of Arthur in the early ninth century writings of Nennius, a welsh writer compiling a History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum). Arguably one of the most famous writers of Arthurian legend was a Welsh cleric named, Geoffrey of Monmouth. On the surface his work 'History of the Kings of Britain c.1138' could be conceived as merely a skilfully constructed framework of welsh folk legends. But these texts were manipulated by high ranking members of society in order to give the British a history that seemed could be perceived as more