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Those Terrible Middle Ages! Debunking the Myths – a book review

“The Church is absolutely medieval!” How often have we heard that remark? It is meant to convey that Catholicism has not kept up with the intellectual, technological, and social advances of modernity, and is merely a throwback to those vilified centuries we’ve been taught to call the “Dark Ages.” In Ignatius Press’ new release “ Those Terrible Middle Ages!” historian Regine Pernoud demonstrates that this attitude is not only mistaken about the Church, but about the Middle Ages as well.