Reddit reviews God and Reason in the Middle Ages

The idea that the middle ages were "the dark ages" is a modern myth. The middle ages were a period of scientific and artistic progress, and their was no great revolution caused by the enlightenment. It was a continuation of midieval thought. The roots of modern science lie in the middle ages

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Read Rodney Stark, James Hannam, or edward grant

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There is a lot of scholarship about the progress of Europe during the middle ages, so this wikipedia article is a nice summary of why it's a misleading conception of the era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

https://www.amazon.com/Reason-Middle-Ages-Edward-Grant/dp/0521003377