Dark Ages (historiography)
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title:
Dark Ages (historiography)
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The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages, or occasionally the entire Middle Ages, in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline. The concept of a "Dark Age" as a historiographical periodization originated in the 1330s with the Italian scholar Petrarch, who regarded the post-Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the "light" of classical antiquity. The term employs traditional light-versus-dar
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Term for the Early Middle Ages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
date created:
2002-10-21T10:45:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T02:23:45Z
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