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One of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew's University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. In the first programme, Knowledge , he explores the way medieval man understood the world - as a place of mystery, even enchantment.
The world was a book written by God. But as the Middle Ages grew to a close, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited.
In the second episode Sex , he unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of medieval men and women. The Church preached hatred of the flesh, promoted the cult of virginity and condemned woman as the sinful heir to Eve. Yet this was the era that gave birth to the idea of romantic, or 'courtly' love. In the third installment Belief , the supernatural comes under the spotlight. The medieval dead shared the world with the living: In the final programme Power , Professor Bartlett lays bare the brutal framework of the medieval class system.
Inequality was a part of the natural order: The class you were born into determined who you were. Would it be any different for people looking back on this time to years from now? Lots of things we take as truths today will be proven wrong over time as they have through history. The MediEVIL period is appropriately named, for it was the period in our history where the greatest EVIL that ever will exist indoctorinated mass censorship upon the masses of developing minds.
The church, organized religion has always been and forever will be the greatest evil that exists on this planet. It's goal is clear to manipulate the masses into believing and following without question it's brand of reality.
Those that follow this deception and believe these lies, are no different than a bird kept forever within a box. Read the comment above yours.
In years time, concepts that seem rational to us will seem 'evil' to our descendents. As our understanding changes so do our beliefs, this is a natural progression, and is positive for healthy social development. The church and organized religion however prefers to resist change, and even kills to prevent change as we have witnessed and as is documented throughout history. So it is the intentional manipulation of knowledge and prevention of ones access to knowledge, enlightenment, and self awareness that defines true evil.
This true and raw evil infected our past, infects our present, and will continue to infect our future. The goal here has always been the same, to control the mindset of the masses and prevent the human psyche from becoming aware of the true self, and it's purpose within this Universe.
It is important to know that organized religion and the main stream media are one of the same ideology. An entire species cannot be entirely evil, for there would be nothing to compare the actions and attitudes of the species, or recognize these actions as inherently evil. It is only the thoughts and desires of a very few members from our species which consistently perpetuate actions that are commonly considered evil.
Although evil has many faces, to me and most people evil in summation is the act of intentionally manipulating others for ones personal gain, without regard to the consequences of ones actions upon others. Consistently manipulating others for the purpose of preventing enlightenment of knowledge and personal awareness of self is evil for it denies what is consider to be a universal right bestowed upon us all as children of the cosmos. The church and organized religion prefer to clip our wings, and blind us from seeing the truth.
If there is only one God, then why do all competing religions fight amongst themselves, spend so much energy promoting their wares?
Could it be that they just don't like the competition that is trying to get a higher shelf space and eye-level product placement within the mind-store? I turned my back on organized religion many years ago, and on that day my education finally began, I also began to understand my true self and my purpose within this amazing universe.
Don't deny yourself your truth. Ahh yes a belief system in which the believers Attack all who believe otherwise without provocation. Going to watch some docs be enlightened and stay out of debate with beligerent people. Consumerism is an organised religion that disempowers and enslaves the working class and middle class peasants. Undoubtedly the most powerful and destructive religion ever - and probably the last religion we will ever know. Let them whom study dig outside their little space and see Just what their institutions is based upon.
There is another alternative to faith in of which He the living force lives in evertything and everywhere. Its not thru so called organized religion. Oh Vlatko Thanks for finding this. A good series in all. Not full of revelations exactly but interesting and well presented. Context of course is needed to fully understand history especially the medieval. Prior to the period there was just as much daft belief and madness, just wasn't all grouped together by one force.
Also one cannot overlook the fact that on the flip side of the coin the unification of Europe that took place led to future communication and developement for all. I hate the methods I hate the "reasons" but honestly the end result of the medieval was the enlightenment and renissance.
It's true religion was the greatest manipulator in its day,damn evil too most may argue, rightly , but today Capitalisim is the greatest evil in the world I wonder what our future folk will think of that The last years have proven that those in power have become more efficient and effective at control and deception on a mass scale gov vs people that we now no longer believe we are under control and are 'free' to live our lives as we please.
Things are just as desperate as they were years ago but for different reasons. Now the threat for us westerners isnt so much losing our life its more an issue of living a life as a modern from of slavery. They just do it best. Do you mean a wooden bowl,.. God forbid a glass bowl with some crack in it? I read your comment and you are clearly a master of contradiction,.. I have greatly enjoyed this series and there were a lot of things in this documentary that I did not know.
I had no idea that it was the captured Islam libraries in Spain that brought the Greek philosophers back to Europe. I also did not know of the so-called bloody pogroms of England against those of the Jewish religion and that they had left and not returned until Cromwell was in power.
It also put things I did know into perspective such as the intolerance of ideas and opinions during that time. It put the current troubles right where they belong in the long history of the crusades. What is really sad for me is that many sects of religions still practice many of the same medieval practices that were discussed in the film.
That comes from depending on relics such as religious books, bones of saints instead of the individual mind. I love books more than anything except I would never let the written word guide my life and interpret reality for me. Again, a wonderful documentary that has much to recommend for itself and many points of discussion. I wish it showed how far we have come, as a human species, since Medieval times.
For me, it showed how much further we need to go. I am amazed that people are so aggrieved of the church as an institution throughout this documentary. As a student of Medieval History, one of the first things I learned is that we are studying these people in their own times, on their terms - not ours.
The church was an institution of power and great wealth, an institution of spirituality, and an institution through which many people could share knowledge. It was large and diversified, not some huge thing that just ruled from Rome - local people had a great variation in beliefs and in how they dealt with the power of the church. We like to think of it as becoming 'corrupted', but, in reality, it grew more ingrained in the society and as its political power rose, more people entered it for the purposes of seeking that power.
It's kind of absurd to say that the church on its own - or even more ridiculous, religion as a whole - was the single corruptive body that made Medieval times difficult for people.
People had it hard for many reasons, reasons that we perpetuate and that continue today, including slavery, racism, and mostly just not seeing other humans as fully human. Look at our institutions. We are heavily descended from that church and the concepts it put forth, from our universities to our law codes to our sciences yes, many in the church opposed certain scientists, but scientific inquiry also emerged from thinkers who put together christian thought and classical thought.
That's not to say that the things we have that have descended from the church are all good for example, many laws are questionable , but it is a little heavy-handed to say that the body of the church somehow made the Middle Ages dark. That's the old history talking. That's why we all call it the Middle Ages - we think of it as just that dark spot between Classical times and our "Enlightenment".
This is just our historical narrative, which came out of a self-glorification during the Enlightenment, and it has almost nothing to do with the lives of people from the Middle Ages. Let's not forget here,that it took a loonggg time before the bible was translated to an everyday language that everyday folk could read,therefore up until that point the scriptures were interpreted by church folk ALONE..
Power corrupts and you know it.. And i dont consider myself a descendent of that church either.. That's offensive to suggest that. Corruption is a loaded term that implies that something beautiful and non-corrupt became somehow dark, evil, and demon-like; to say that the church was once a pristine organization that become tainted by power-mongers is largely a Protestant historical view I would venture to say that the church didn't become corrupted as an institution any more than any institution does, including the ones at work in our own society.
And yes, it was an institution through which knowledge was shared. I'm by no means making that claim that the majority of people were able to access that knowledge, but then again, the majority of people in our own world don't really have access to a wealth of information or far less, university education or something like that. Having the bible translated into the vernacular does not mean that knowledge began to be shared at that point - scholars had worked for many years prior to the s in Latin, and though this excluded the vast majority of the population, it was done through the mechanisms of the church.
Calling it the 'dark ages' really bothers most Medieval historians, for good reason - it implies that somehow all the people alive and working in that time were low, worse, more corrupt than those before or after. It prevents us from accurately seeing those people in their own world, and not just from our own perspective - and making good historical narratives involves understanding and trying to minimize our own biases in writing history. You don't think that huge swathes of our social order, government, and scientific method derive partly from the church?
Where do you think the idea of a "penitentiary" comes from? Doing penance, that's what. Also, who do you think were the people that gathered up old Roman and Greek texts and began the Humanistic movement? History might be written as a series of ages, but we are all connected in a continuum a lot more than we'd like to think sometimes.