Why were the Middle Ages so savage?

>>2060045
They weren't.

>>2060045
Europeans were basically filthy idiots until Persian science met Eurometallurgy. Then they killed people with guns and life became more OK.

Because displaying everything as more savage apparantly makes media more appealing

>>2060068
They were. This period is literally the most deadly of all human history.

>>2060045
Because enlightenment historians were the fedora tippers of their time, and their biased depiction of the middle ages still colours popular perception of the period.

>>2060045
It wasn't particularly more savage than any other period, and I'd argue that colonisation engineered far worse tragedies than the stuff that went down in the Middle Ages.

>>2060092
Only because of the plague. When it comes to warfare the 30 years war was far more brutal.

>>2060104
This, Gibbon's hard on for Julian the Apostate for example is literally "Christianity lol shoulda stuck with muh pagan heritage."

>>2060045
rather than a regression of Roman civilization I see it as a progression of unwashed germanic civilization

so they basically started from scratch

they didn't evolve the genes for guns germs and steel yet

>>2060045
>Come, julius, let us watch executions marketed as entertainment!

>>2060110
>I'd argue that colonisation engineered far worse tragedies
and ou'd be wrong, imperialism brought peace to vast areas which in the middle ages saw endemic warfare between tribes or feudal warlords

The only reason colonialism is seen as bad is due to the racial element which triggers some people, but I don't see anyone complaining about Mongol or Ottoman imperialism. Syria would be better off today if it were still part of the empire. There at least people can accept this very necessary system.

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>>2060045
They made big leaps in humanitarianism when you compare it to the Roman period.

Well the during the High and late medieval period.

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It wasn't it was merely the starting point of bunch of new high civilizations after the fall of Rome, Enlightenment historians were just a bit on the biased side when documenting about it.