Late Antiquity and Dark Ages are often considered as lacking any meaningful social, technical and scientific progress but they were preceded by Rome essentially in a constant crisis from 230s or so onwards.Did anything of lasting legacy get made in from 200s until the Fall of Rome? Palace of Diocletian feels like the one architectural place of note?
>>18544638Some of the most significant aspects of Christian theology were decided during that time period. Regardless of what you think about them they were hugely influential.
>>18544638The Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis
The technological stagnation started with the rise of rome. Can you name a single uniquely Roman invention? Everything they built already existed in the hellenistic kingdoms.
>>18544638Neo-platonism, Diophantus, Saint Augustine, the Walls of constantine.
>>18544638the entire foundation of catholic and orthodox Christianity
>>18544747Kind of slop except for the Carolingian era getting things back in order for a while desu.
>>18544638speaking of dark ages, a reminder le monks saved le civilization during le dark ages
>>18544638>Did anything of lasting legacy get made in from 200s until the Fall of Rome?Yeah, but most of that is in what's currently Asia. The Roman empire's center became shifted toward the prosperous and populous eastern provinces, with the west (especially Hispania, the Gauls and Britain, less so Africa, Italy, and Illyria) being peripheral. This was happening even before constantine.However, keep in mind that the dark ages last until the 900s at the least. So you are omitting most of that period.
>>18544701The codex, which is superior to the scroll.
>>18544638The people who push these narratives are fucking retarded. Technology was still advancing in the late Roman Empire and in a few areas it continued to advance in the early Middle Ages. Roman military equipment changed because metallurgy and saddles got better. Late Roman ships were significantly better than what had been around in the Punic wars. The late Romans were building structures that would have been impossible to pull off in the early empire. Even the famous Roman arch saw improvements. They figured out how to make them taller and stronger than they had been in the time of Hadrian or Trajan. Stop taking surface level morons seriously. >>18544701This dipshit is a perfect example
>>18544969>carolingiansI respect them for asserting dominance over the pathetic remains of the ERE and living rent free in the minds of faggot byzaboos. But I always thought of them as picking up the pieces of a broken and less knowledgeable world. I mean just take this equestrian statue of Charlemagne and compare it to its inspiration, the Marcus Aurelius equestrian statue. I’m not trying to say Carolingian era Europeans were constantly living in the equivalent of a dark souls game, but I would be remiss in ignoring these distinctions and not feeling like something was lost along the way.
Some early 4th century stuff:>Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, 312 AD>Baths of Diocletian, 306 AD>Aula Palatina of Trier, 309 AD>Trier Imperial Baths, 316 AD>Galerius Palace of Thessaloniki, c. 306 AD>Villa del Casale, c. 300-350 ADThere seems to be less built as the century goes on, especially in the west, but then of course there's a massive expansion of church building in the east over the next two centuries which culminates in the Hagia Sophia, as well as stuff like city walls, cisterns, aquaducts and bridges.>>18545454My respect for the Carolingians tanked when I found out that the Aachen chapel that's always given as an example of their renaissance is almost entirely modern.
