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“中世纪”,以往,每当提起这个词,人们自然而然地会联想起一个愚昧、落后、贫困的黑暗世界,宗教势力、封建统治窒息了文明的生机。落日余晖,教堂钟声沉重悠长,十字架的投影掩盖了田野里最后一丝光明,万物都在昏沉之中丧失了活力…… 然而,“中世纪”实在是一个不甚科学的历史概念。文艺复兴时代的意大利人颇以希腊、罗马古典文化真正继承者和复兴者自视。他们认为从罗马覆灭之后到文艺复兴之间的历史乃是野蛮黑暗的时代,在文化
In the Middle Ages, in the past, people often naturally reminded me of a dark world of ignorance, backwardness and poverty whenever religion was raised. Religious forces and feudal rule suffocated the life of civilization. After the setting sun, the church bells are long and heavy, the projection of the cross obscures the last ray of light in the field, and all things are lost in the doldrums ... However, the “Middle Ages” is indeed an unscientific concept of history. The Renaissance Italian rather self-regard Greece, the true successor and revival of Roman classical culture. They consider the history from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance as an era of brutal darkness,