True: Christianity did preserve lots of litterature and educated people: the monistaries were the learning centres of it's time. HOWEVER, the church also did do grave damage to learning: banning the old greek philosophers. it's only thru ISLAM we nowadays now about aristoteles, platoo and the such. And that's a fact. No point arguing that. They, the church, also sentenced people to death for questioning the christian perception of the world; If you thought the world in fact was round the church burned you. Thinking the Earth WASN'T the centre of the universe? Burned. Accused of being a witch? Burned. People were really civiled back then... Espacially the churh... The early christian churh did have many form of trials, believing that God would protect the accusted if he/she wrere innocent.
The one thing the Church did do (except preserve education and litteracy) was to give Europe a united culture and belief system. Without the church Europe wouldn't be what it is today.
Anyways, the "Dark Ages" got its name even DURING the dark ages. I think Dante acually refered his time as the dark ages - which would be the 1400's. They (medeviel dudes and dudettess) thought of the Antiquity as the high point of human culture and saw the following centuries as, or close to, barbarism. Why I can't really remember, but it wasn't around the 1500's this started to change (mostly in northern Italy)...
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