Why are the medieval ages the most romanticized part of history?

Why are the medieval ages the most romanticized part of history?

Because most Europeans nations had roots in that era. For this reason, Romanticism during the nationalist revival of the 1800s tended to focus on the Middle Ages.

It was the period in which morality was perfected. With no room left to grow and people seeking change we have declined morally.

This is the Victorian perception of Middle Ages but it's far from truth.

It was pretty dynamic time and morality was certainly not static either.

Read about some town and its laws and punishments in the middle ages. Seemed very harsh but fair.
But I think the actual reason is more about kewl knights and shit

it's far enough from romantic era (XIX) to fantasize about it, dark ages = less known era & because most Europeans nations had roots in that era

2/2 and because Romanticism extol feelings and intuition unless reason in Enlightenment, and Enlightenment is a negation of medieval values and Romanticism is a negation of Enlightenment values.

They're not. If anything normies think Medieval times were something like a religious police state infested with diseases and ignorant people.

Not fucking true, it is the most sullied, besmeared and misunderstood age in history, because Reinassance and Illuminism faggots thought they were 'oh so superior' compared to them and invented all the legends of ignorance and obscurantism
They did not believe in flat Earth, they did not believe the world would end in the year 1000, the Ius Primae Noctis did not exist, and they weren't affected by plague and barbaric invasions for most of their time, only for relatively small periods
They loved reason, intellect, knowledge, courtesy and God

this

>They loved reason, intellect,
Who did? The scholars and monks?

On top of that the scientific revolution has its roots on sholacticism and not in the Reinassance meme which was extremelly unscientific and dull

All of them. They had a faith in human reason that not even illuminsts had
According to medieval people with experience and intellect you could understand everything of the World, with the Bible and intellect you could understand everything of the Universe and Metaphysics
God gave you his teachings and your intellect, that was all you needed according to them

Knights, warriors and chivalry

same way japs romanticise the sengoku period and chinese romanticise their 3 kingdoms era

That is pelagianism. Grace is also necessary

>they loved reason
>witch trials were rather popular
>intellect and knowledge only as long as it wasn't heretic, also most of the people couldn't even read
>courtesy
If you were a noble PoW that might be true. Have fun being a peasant though. You'd get killed right away.
>god
They loved him so much they spend quite some time killing each other over the argument of which was the correct one.

>witch trials were rather popular
See? That's another fucking lie
Witch trials were a thing of protestantism during 17th century

>They loved him so much they spend quite some time killing each other over the argument of which was the correct one.

Oh fuck off with this meme. Most of "religious" wars had underlying causes of economical/poltical aspects, this includes both Crusades AND the Thirty Years War

Also
>They loved him so much they spend quite some time killing each other over the argument of which was the correct one.
That's the fucking Thirty years war, another modern age thing

>most people couldn't read
Same as in the '800s, the century where humanity peaked

knight armour looks cool
just like any other armor, of course

or any of you gonna tell me these aren't sexy?

I doubt a armour like that was used that much in battle. It looks very expensive and unpractical.

Truth is that medieval buildings can be quite comfy.

it's more practical than you think but yeah it actually was both expensive and a symbol of social/military status
knights are above foot soldiers after all

The medieval period is only glanced over here. The Viking age is more interesting aparently
And before you comment, the Viking age is concidered part of the Iron age in Scandinavia.

>before you comment, the Viking age is concidered part of the Iron age in Scandinavia
aight, thanks for clarifying

It is practical because you aren’t much slower than your unarmoured opponent who has to make staby stabby instead of slashy slashy to hurt you now bcause you have armour, meanwhile you can do slashy slashy all you want.

at some point bashing with maces/warhammers were the only smart thing to do because armour was so well done all stabbing points were covered and all you could hope was to hit the knight with enough strenght to cause concussion
... and then crossbows and firearms appeared. evolution baby

witch trials were renaissance
intellect and knowledge even when heretic was preserved
or do you think of the early roman empire as fantasy tale
the catholic church invested into universities, and art schools
What is up with people trying to push things into the Middle Ages?
>inb4 but muh Gallileo
The only person who insulted the pope in one of his books because the pope asked him to make his theory a theory and not a fact. and that wasnt even in the middle ages.

in our case, the simplest solution is to blame everything on the ottomans, so we must present medieval period as the most prosperous one in our history

That building is probably 200 years old as 80% of German castles.

Pike and shot infantry warfare was bloody for sure.

No, it's medieval and Austrian actually,

Then in Scandinavian logic, did Scandinavia enter the medieval age after the rest of Europe?