In popular discourse, the historical period of the Middle Ages is synonymous with the term "Dark Ages": how did this particular equation come about? The immediate connotations of the Dark Ages are clearly negative: they suggest oppression, ignorance, and a period of stillness in human development. The reason behind this description of the Middle Ages is undoubtedly the result of a contrast with the later periods of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment: the Renaissance itself signals a "new birth", while the Enlightenment clearly evokes images of a new vision and a new vision exercised. by humanity. Thus, the negative values ​​attributed to the Middle Ages are the result of the difference of this historical period with the Renaissance. Such a narrative judges the Middle Ages according to a completely different worldview. To the extent that we view the values ​​of the Renaissance and Enlightenment as positive developments in human history, the Middle Ages will be considered “dark.” From another point of view, to discard the negative image of the Middle Ages, it is necessary to deconstruct the entirely positive image of the Enlightenment, thus calling into question the presuppositions behind these descriptions. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the post-medieval world can be considered to have "invented the Middle Ages to distinguish itself from them". (2014) The description of the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages can therefore be understood in terms of the shift in values ​​that occurred from the Middle Ages to the post-medieval world. What values ​​and worldviews characterized the Middle Ages, such that they came to be rejected and labeled “dark” by the world of the Renaissance and Enlightenment? As Julius Evola (2010) writes, “with the middle of paper…reflected in the great Christian works of art of the time. At the same time, the medieval world also showed an interest in the pre-Christian tradition, to the extent that it made numerous translations of earlier pagan works which later helped shape the more scientific worldview of the Renaissance and the Lights. The decision to depict the Middle Ages as dark is therefore the result of a different historical period applying its own internal values ​​to the medieval period: to the extent that the post-medieval intelligentsia rejected the religious worldview as superstition and slavery , she put forward a narrative of the Medieval as dark. From another perspective, however, if one values ​​spirituality above all else, the irony is that the post-medieval world, with its emphasis on science and the human being at the expense of the spiritual, is the real “dark ages” »..”