>>510160050>the catholic church enforced the aristotlean model of the cosmosAnd? So did Rome. So did Greece, hence "Aristotlean."
And that's just for the Western Empire. The Eastern Empire/Byzantines lasted throughout that whole time, were Christian, and dropped the Greek philosophy and started advancing in science and technology as well.
The mythical concept of a "dark age" was just that, a myth. Which is why you never hear a real historian call it that and only pop-history stuff.