The Middle Ages is the peak human civilization. No other period or culture has such a definite, recognisable style, yet varied at the same time. The romanesque and gothic architectures, the importance given to math and science as opposite to rhetoric or philosophy in the trivium-quadrivium education system, the ethical-ethnical backbone, with its feudal-caste hierarchy and economy, the glorious war history, the political pragmatism and “incorrectness”, the incredible number titanic personalities, especially for their polyhedric competences and their vigour, the imperial structure loosely unifying the whole continent , or the latin language itself, but also all the beautiful vulgar languages, incomparably richer than today’s, and last but not least the epic poetry, the grand style, the magical atmosphere, the religion ingrained in daily life, festivities, recurrences and time marking. It is a whole, organic world so rich and deep one could lose himself even just by focusing on obscure botany codices or brewing practices.

>>17858395 (OP)
The High Middle Ages, yes
The early Middle Ages was an actual Dark Age, and the late Middle Ages/early modern period was the real barbarism

>>17858395 (OP)
>No other period or culture has such a definite, recognisable style, yet varied at the same time.

You ever heard of Greco-Roman architecture?

>>17858395 (OP)
inb4 ackshually le dark ages of barbarism, superstition, and obscurantism

>>17858395 (OP)
>start building something
>complete it 500 years later, at the earliest
>change architects three times during the process, leading to three distinct architectural styles being represented in a single building
Modern infrastructure projects ain't got shit on public building contracts of the Middle Ages

>>17858395 (OP)
Is this bait or are there really tradfags like this?

>>17858586
In the context of the European Middle Ages, the expression "Dark Ages" is almost universally used to refer to the Early Middle Ages, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire but prior to the rise of Charlemagne's Kingdom of Francia. It is pointless to try to bring up a strawman that no regular on this board actually believes. Also, as everyone with a bit of common sense knows, Hollywood and video game producers are not good sources for learning history, especially not for periods long before the contemporary era.

>>17858395 (OP)
>The Middle Ages is the peak human civilization
I'll take the bait

>No other period or culture has such a definite, recognisable style, yet varied at the same time
That's because it doesn't come from the middle ages but from a plethor of times preceding and subceding the middle ages

>the importance given to math and science as opposite to rhetoric or philosophy in the trivium-quadrivium education system
The middle ages really doesn't have much to show for its intellectual achievement. All it really did was reinterpret aristotelianism in light of christianity. There's some good works here and there but nothing much as compared to other periods.

>the ethical-ethnical backbone, with its feudal-caste hierarchy and economy
anon do you know how these castes formed ? Literal dynastic barbarians who would sign contracts with people in exchange of their labor on land. Over times these fractured into a bunch of petty manors as land was the resource and people the laborers.

>the glorious war history, the political pragmatism and “incorrectness”, the incredible number titanic personalities
lol great bait

>the imperial structure loosely unifying the whole continent
Which imperial structure anon ? There was no "imperial" structure loosely unifying the continent (yes, including the HRE and the church).

>the latin language itself, but also all the beautiful vulgar languages, incomparably richer than today’s, and last but not least the epic poetry, the grand style, the magical atmosphere, the religion ingrained in daily life, festivities, recurrences
That I'll concede to.

>>17860190
You'd be surprised

>>17858395 (OP)
>caste hierarchy
jeet