In the context of popular language, the historical period of the Middle Ages is synonymous with the term "Dark Ages": how did this particular equation arise? The immediate connotations of the Dark Ages are clearly negative: they suggest oppression, ignorance, and a period of immobility in human development. The reason behind this description of the Middle Ages is probably 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 intuition and vision exercised by 'humanity. Consequently, the negative values ​​attributed to the Middle Ages are the result of the difference of this historical period compared to the Renaissance. Such an account, in particular, judges the Middle Ages from an entirely different worldview. To the extent that one considers the values ​​of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment as positive developments in human history, the Middle Ages will be seen as “dark”. From another perspective, to reject the negative image of the Middle Ages, it is necessary to deconstruct the totally positive image of the Enlightenment, thus questioning the assumptions 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 it”. (2014) The description of the Middle Ages as Middle Ages can therefore be understood based on the shift in values ​​that occurred from the Middle Ages to the post-medieval world. What values ​​and worldviews characterized the Middle Ages, so much so that they were rejected and defined as "dark" by the world of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? As Julius Evola (2010) writes, “with the en... half of the paper... reflected in the great Christian works of art of the time. At the same time, the medieval world also showed interest in the pre-Christian tradition, to the point of making extensive translations of earlier pagan works that then helped shape the more scientific worldview of the Renaissance and Enlightenment. The decision to describe the Middle Ages as dark is therefore the result of a different historical period applying its own internal values ​​to the Middle Ages: to the extent that the post-medieval intelligentsia rejected the religious vision of the world as superstition and slavery, it advanced a of the Middle Ages 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 at the expense of the spiritual, is the true “ dark century”.”