The cultural, scientific, economic, social, political collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere. A lot is being said about Irish monks rescuing civilization by copying Ancient books, but Ireland wasn't hit by the Germanics until the Viking Age.

The cultural, scientific, economic collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere. A lot is being said about Irish monks rescuing civilization by copying Ancient books, but Ireland wasn't hit by the Germanics until the Viking Age.

The cultural, scientific, economic collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere. A lot is being said about Irish monks rescuing civilization by copying books, but Ireland wasn't hit by the Germanics until the Viking Age.

The cultural, scientific, economic collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere. A lot is being said about Irish monks rescuing civilization by copying books, but Ireland wasn't hit by Geemanics until the Viking Age.

The cultural, scientific, economic collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In other places the forest people civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere.

The cultural, scientific, economic collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period. In places other places the forest dwellers civilized themselves by bastardizing Roman culture but didn't do much more than live in a ruin of it, except in Italy where it didn't go near as bad and which is why also the Renaissance began there much earlier than elsewhere.

The cultural, scientific, economic collapse of the early medieval period (in the wake of Germanic conquest of the Roman Empire, not merely Christianity as you suggest) at least is undeniable. Varier depending on region, with places like Britain hit worse than the others, so much we don't even have almost any written sources from this period.