Were people less intelligent in medieval times?

I think “immature”, while not technically inaccurate, is less than useful. Rather, you have to understand that the modern distinction between childhood and adulthood would have been completely alien to medieval people. Rather, people were people. Children were small and kinda dumb people, who needed help with a lot of basic stuff. read more

The idea of the whole Middle Ages as a "dark age" therefore actually comes from the early modern Renaissance and humanist movements and their denigration of their immediate forebears and idolization and idealization of the Greeks and Romans. read more