They were called as such because it was the midpoint between the fall of Imperial Rome and the modern age. It's a rather outmoded view of the era, as it paints those who inhabited it as primitive and simplistic when the reality was anything but. Humans in the seventeen and eighteenth centuries preferred to think themselves markedly more sophisticated than their forebears.
( they were not, in point of fact. but burgeoning world travel, literacy, advancements in medicine and the like certainly convinced them of it, though godric himself had attended surgeries aplenty in his childhood. the druids knew which plants helped and which harmed. which could bring down a fever or draw an infection. technology was not the only lost thing. )
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Date: 2020-02-04 12:52 am (UTC)They were called as such because it was the midpoint between the fall of Imperial Rome and the modern age. It's a rather outmoded view of the era, as it paints those who inhabited it as primitive and simplistic when the reality was anything but. Humans in the seventeen and eighteenth centuries preferred to think themselves markedly more sophisticated than their forebears.
( they were not, in point of fact. but burgeoning world travel, literacy, advancements in medicine and the like certainly convinced them of it, though godric himself had attended surgeries aplenty in his childhood. the druids knew which plants helped and which harmed. which could bring down a fever or draw an infection. technology was not the only lost thing. )