Can you offer any good talks or documentaries? Reviews even? I don't have time to spend on this topic to read something. I also don't quite understand your viewpoint. Are you saying that catholocism didn't stifle "scientific" advancement in the middle ages?
No, what the Fool contended was that the rise of the Papacy and Catholicism has directly responsible for the "dark ages." My contention is that this is impossible because a) the Dark Ages did not exist, at least by the pop history definitition, b) the power of the catholic church was tenuous at best during the Early MA, and it was not until much later (the High MA) that the power of the church grew, precisely at the same time Europe was experiencing a literary, technological, economic, and social Renaissance of its own (which was, in fact, the second such development since the end of Roman authority in the West).
Some time ago I speculated about the impact of classical learning on the development of science in Western civilization. Specifically, I wondered whether Greek learning was as much a hindrance as a help to this development. Along with Greek methodology you also had the baggage of the more daft ideas they had.
Damon.
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