Middle Ages

The period of European history roughly spanning from the 5th to the 15th century, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. Claims use it as a historical reference point for the origins of ideas, textual traditions, and cultural attitudes such as anti-Muslim rhetoric and xenophobia.

Claims that use this term

• Textual survival in the Middle Ages depended on monastic usefulness
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric was founded in the Middle Ages and persists into today
• Islam has been framed by passion, prejudice, and political interests since the Middle Ages
• Islamophobia has been present in Western discourse since the Middle Ages, when negative stereotypes about Muslims helped build support for the Crusades and rationalized European colonial domination.
• No era since the Middle Ages has discussed Islam outside prejudice and politics
• Racialism was already routine in Europe by the close of the Middle Ages