What if the Middle Ages never happened?

The "Witch Craze" actually happened after the Middle Ages and was substantially an early Modern affair, peaking in the Seventeenth Century, and the whole idea that the Church taught the earth was flat is myth invented by a Nineteenth Century novelist. read more

Illig says that the Middle Ages – a period that includes the collapse of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam, the rise (and fall) of the Byzantine Empire, and the Viking Age, among other foundational epochs – didn’t happen, and were at some point made up by the academic establishment, through a series of blunders and a heavy reliance on antique documents, which he believes are unreliable. read more

The"Witch Craze" actually happened after the Middle Ages and was substantially an early Modern affair, peaking in the Seventeenth Century, and the whole idea that the Church taught the earth was flat is myth invented by a Nineteenth Century novelist. read more