The Dark Ages

[Joe]

I know there isn't much info on the dark ages, I was hoping someone who is interested in history could point me to a source about what life was like in the dark ages.

I am asking here because there is much confusion/distortion as far as I am aware and would hold a source in high esteem if a fellow brother recommended it to me.

[EzraLB]

I can't think of any particular reliable source on "The Dark Ages," but I recall that Bill once said that the term was a Jewish lie and there was nothing "dark" about that time in European history.

From a Jewish perspective, that era was "dark" because Christian society had ostracized the Jews and kept them in their place--away from White society. The Jews claim that the "Dark Ages" ended when they were emancipated and allowed into our society to destroy it--and it is actually after their liberation that should be considered the true "Dark Ages".

[Staropramen]

^^^Good response EzraLB

[Joe]

I remember Bill saying something like that too, that people lived in a Christian way in early American history and during the 'dark-ages' of Europe.

Thus I wanted to know what life was like in Europe at that time. But it is very true what you say Ezra, we are surely in the dark-ages now.

[wmfinck]

Even reading the Wikipedia article "Dark Ages" you can see the misuse of the term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_%28historiography%29

In Roman Catholic Europe, all scholarship existed under the auspices of the Papal authority, and was conducted in entirely Catholic universities and monasteries, for better or worse. There were no "secular" schools. Many chronicles and histories and other documents remain extant which are written in Medieval Latin and accessible to only a few scholars having academic credentials and support. You just can't go to a bookstore and get a copy of Baronius or Petrarch.

There has been, in my opinion, a multifaceted disdain for the production of popular accounts of the history of the Middle Ages which has endured now for several centuries.

The first aspect is Protestant. The Reformation and the break away from Roman Catholic Church dominance of half of Europe created a distaste for anything belonging to the Catholic Church.

The second aspect is Jewish. As soon as the Jews were emancipated, Jewish capital (after the French Revolution) quickly gave Jewish interests a dominant position in media and publishing from that time forward. Since then a large portion of the histories we have available are focused on the periods of "enlightenment" and "renaissance", because the periods from the days of Constantine unto Napoleon were indeed a "dark age" for the Jews.

There is plenty of scholarly academic material concerning the Middle Ages, but I think the Jew has popularized the term "Dark Ages" in order to lead the average Christian to believe that nothing much is known about those "evil" times, which were actually only evil to the Jew. But the Middle Ages were also filled with Jewish treachery in the subversion of Christian Europe, and the Jews would never want us to realize that.

If an accurate study of the Middle Ages were popularized, Whites today would have a much higher racial awareness and there would be no "White guilt" that the Jews could possibly infect us with.

This is not a full discussion, but I thought I would offer a few of my opinions.

Because of the language barriers and the difficulty in reaching original source materials, scholarly books detailing life in the Middle Ages can be very expensive. Those that are available, I certainly would not know the value of because I could never afford to see them. Here is an example:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ez_edSWAQGAC&rdid=book-ez_edSWAQGAC&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport

There are some good websites which have a lot of material from the Middle Ages. One of them is here, even though it is a Jesuit university and loaded with propaganda as well:

http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asp

[EzraLB]

Right, Bill, that "Handbook On Medieval Studies" by Albrecht Classen is $800, and $500 for a used copy. Whereas one of Classen's other books, "Erotic Tales Of Medieval Germany" can be had for $20. It's obvious what they want us to "study" in a serious way.

[Joe]

I understand, thanks Bill and Ezra. I will have critical a look at that site, I didn't understand the circumstances that such information is kept from us.

I will also look at early American history.

[MichaelAllen]

I can speak at a good length about the history of Britain during the first millennium. The rest of the continent, not as much.

The transition out of the dark ages into the renaissance occurred as a result of the fact that the jews had gotten a foot in the door as far back as in the time of Charlemagne. Had this piece of crap Charlemagne never allowed the jews into his kingdom, the history of Europe would have looked a lot different.

Joe, I'm still in the process of writing a short essay on the Magna Carta - because it's 800th birthday was celebrated on June 15th this year.

A lot of people have commented that the Magna Carta is a strange document, and "we just really don't know much about it..." - and you'll hear that kind of rhetoric from the academics. The history of that time from William the conqueror until Magna Carta --- something happens to the people of England and they are upset, and they realize that they lost something that they wanted to have back. The Magna Carta was a very minimal and feeble attempt at restoring a little bit of that. We have to piece it all together little by little to find out what was going on and what the people wanted back.

Under the old Saxon kingdom, the people lived in a way that has very seldom been replicated since that time.

1.) They were freeholders on the land. No one could confiscate anyone's land for any reason. Families had usually 120 acres give or take upon which to livestock, pasture, and farm.
2.) Inheritance was passed father to son, and no taxes were paid on it.
3.) There were no taxes on anyone, but the people contributed to the local churches.
4.) The older wise men were elected by the heads of the families to go up to the national level which was called the Witan. The Christian leadership was heavily involved with the Witan.
5.) Neither the Witan nor the (elected) King ever "made" laws. Their activity appears to be that of defending the homeland.
6.) There were no passive streams of income - therefore, there were no nobles, barons, etc. where the people were simply part of the estate. Each man was a king of his own homestead.

Now, if you go and read Magna Carta, and you pay very careful attention to the wording, you can see that people were very, very, very angry at something that had been happening to them. And if you think about those points I just made, consider how the Kingdom of old Israel was laid out initially. It was the exact same system.
1.) Freeholders, land untaxed, unalienable.
2.) Inheritance untaxed.
3.) No wage taxes. Tithes were only taken from the 'increase.'
4.) The captains of 10s, 50s, 100s. The Levites were administrators and adjudicators of the law.
5.) Judges in old Israel were appointed/elected in old Israel often times to lead or aid in military operations.
6.) Israel was declared to be a kingdom where each man was a chief and priest.

I better stop... I need to finish the essay before I post too much here. LOL.

[bahr]

Very interesting, MichaelAllen. Surely this subject could constitute a major key in a better understanding of the development of our History and of the Revelation!

[Joe]

That is very interesting MichaelAllen, as Bahr said. It speaks to my initial question and I await your essay.

Thank-you.