There was a time when only the church has control over who got access to books and what books were allowed, it was called the dark ages.

Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them] · edit-2 1 year ago

There was a time when only the church has control over who got access to books and what books were allowed, it was called the dark ages.

HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided] · 1 year ago

I think it's a bit misleading to conceive of the historical role of the church as solely restricting access to knowledge. although mass culture and public libraries simply could not have been invented yet, the roman catholic church was preserving and building upon the knowledge that did exist. europe certainly wasn't as dynamic as the muslim world during the golden age, but that's not because the church was like "no science allowed, only religion, which is the opposite of science."

There was a time when only the church has control over who got access to books and what books were allowed, it was called the dark ages.

There was a time when only the church has control over who got access to books and what books were allowed, it was called the dark ages.

Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_)