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Fair point, but not fully.

>"arguably Christianity played a role"
>implying Christianity caused the lack of records rather than preserved what we have
>ignoring that pagan Rome’s collapse left a vacuum no one could fully fill
>forgetting monasteries were the only places bothering to copy anything

The early medieval period was chaotic because Rome’s centralized system imploded. Christianity didn’t “cause” the record shortage; it was the main thing keeping any records alive. Monasteries like Monte Cassino or St. Gall were copying manuscripts (Virgil, Cicero, Boethius) while warlords were torching villages. The Church’s scriptoria were the only consistent literacy hubs. Without them, we’d have even less (maybe nothing) of classical texts. Look at the Codex Amiatinus or the Lindisfarne Gospels; those aren’t the work of a civilization-hating cult.

>"the high/late middle ages were not so "dark" in this regard"
True, but the “Dark Ages” label overstates the case. Early medieval Europe wasn’t Athens, but it wasn’t a cultural void either.

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