The Dark Ages and the Enlightenment

The Middle Ages, often looked at by the moderns as the saeculum obscurum, were not in my historiography, a time of dull intellects and dark souls, but a time rich in theology and piety. It was a time that towards its close saw a Dominican monk pen the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles; at its beginning a philosopher pen Consolatio Philosophiae. No, perhaps it was the Enlightenment that was dark, and the saeculum obscurum that was quite enlightened.