Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on college campuses?

Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by jonah on Friday January 28, 2011 @03:04AM (#2151169)

Well, how about the one that preserved knowledge through the dark ages then?

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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by NickPollard on Friday January 28, 2011 @06:19AM (#2151477)

Isn't a lot of modern academic opinion turning against the idea of any kind of significant 'dark age' actually having occurred in Europe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages

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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by arethuza on Friday January 28, 2011 @08:07AM (#2151645)

They seem to be avoiding the term "Dark Age" but there is no doubt that there was a huge collapse in the infrastructure of civil society and technology after the Western Empire ended.

Note that there was also an earlier Bronze Age "Dark Age" in Eastern Europe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_collapse

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Re:Is it time to return to the medieval way of life on colle... by tomjen3 on Friday January 28, 2011 @08:29AM (#2151699)

If it hadn't been for religion, we wouldn't have spent 1000 years in the dark ages.

So the preserved knowledge is only a tiny slither of what they destroyed.

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