Thursday, May 21, 2009
Why for the Time period?
Why did you vote for the era you voted for? I voted for enlightenment...and let me tell you why. I believe that we are free thinkers...innovation specialists. Why do I believe this? I don't know, but where there is a will there is a way. The other thought was beginning of time, because even though there are several brothers, no one has killed anyone, unlike those first jokers.
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I also thought enlightenment. I think that we are a artistically gifted group. With the artists, musicians, actors and such. It leads me to think that we are enlightened...
ReplyDeleteSo is this what you do now... update your blog on company time? Keep it up!
ReplyDeletehaha, that made me laugh! wait until I make the whole thing live and interactive!
ReplyDeleteIt can't be enlightenment. That's all about reason. The whole era highlighted reason over art, chance or randomness. Think of our family. What could be more random? Who could be more artistic? Joe's conception alone defies reason...
ReplyDeleteI chose other because I have always thought the Webb boys would fit well in the Wild Wild West. Kristi
ReplyDeleteLet me share why I chose the dark ages...
ReplyDeleteThe concept of a Dark Age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature.[5] Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Classical Roman Antiquity and the High Middle Ages, including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general. Popular culture has further expanded on the term as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.
The term "Dark Ages" was originally intended to denote the entire period between the fall of Rome and the "Renaissance"; the term "Middle Ages" has a similar motivation, implying an "intermediate" period between Classical Antiquity and the modern era. In the 19th century scholars began to recognize the accomplishments made during the period, thereby challenging the image of the Middle Ages as a time of darkness and decay.[3] The term "Dark Ages" is now rarely used in scholarship, and when used, it is often restricted to the Early Middle Ages.
The rise of archaeology and other specialties in the 20th century has shed much light on the period and offered a more nuanced understanding of its positive developments.[6] Other terms of periodization have come to the fore: Late Antiquity, the Early Middle Ages, and the Great Migrations, depending on which aspects of culture are being emphasized. When modern scholarly study of the Middle Ages arose in the 19th century, the term "Dark Ages" was at first kept, with all its critical overtones. On the rare occasions when the term "Dark Ages" is used by historians today, it is intended to be neutral, namely, to express the idea that the events of the period often seem "dark" to us only because of the paucity of artistic and cultural output, including historical records, when compared with both earlier and later times.
The concept of a Dark Age was introduced by Petrarch in the 1330s.[3][5] Writing of those who had come before him, he said, "Amidst the errors there shone forth men of genius, no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom."[5] Christian writers had traditional metaphors of "light versus darkness" to describe "good versus evil." Petrarch was the first to co-opt the metaphor and give it secular meaning by reversing its application. Classical Antiquity, so long considered the "dark" age for its lack of Christianity, was now seen by Petrarch as the age of "light" because of its cultural achievements, while Petrarch's time, allegedly lacking such cultural achievements, was seen as the age of darkness.[5]
ReplyDeleteAs an Italian, Petrarch saw the Roman Empire and the classical period as expressions of Italian greatness.[5] He spent much of his time travelling through Europe rediscovering and republishing classic Latin and Greek texts. He wanted to restore the classical Latin language to its former purity. Humanists saw the preceding 900-year period as a time of stagnation. They saw history unfolding, not along the religious outline of St. Augustine's Six Ages of the World, but in cultural (or secular) terms through the progressive developments of classical ideals, literature, and art.
Petrarch wrote that history had had two periods: the classic period of the Greeks and Romans, followed by a time of darkness, in which he saw himself as still living. Humanists believed one day the Roman Empire would rise again and restore classic cultural purity, and so by the late 14th and early 15th century, humanists such as Leonardo Bruni believed they had attained this new age, and that a third, Modern Age had begun. The age before their own, which Petrarch had labelled dark, thus became a "middle" age between the classic and the modern. The first use of the term "Middle Age" appeared with Flavio Biondo around 1439.
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ReplyDeleteryan you are way too scholarly on this issue!
ReplyDeleteI vote for beginning of time because we seem to have grown exponentially in a very short time-literally covering the earth(4 continentents so far) with our very presence! you know that whole go forth and multiply thing really worked for us! We have gone from two to 25 in a very short time!
Columbus all the way - adventurous and nautical
ReplyDeleteI know this doesn't fit with this, but the new poll is jacked... Picking one of my Favorite from the list you gave is impossible. I love all of them, and thanks for making me hungry. There are no wrong answers on this. Plus if you are going to have a list you also need to include the mint ice cream cake and turtle cheesecake. All in all, I say other with a vote for all.
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