Can the middle ages be described as the Dark ages? With so many people describing this time period as the ‘dark ages’, what happened for people to think this way. Well for us to answer this question we need to go back in time hundreds of years. Looking back at 3 separate document from the ‘dark ages’ we will be able to see what created this famous title.
For something to be considered ‘dark’, something disastrous, must have happened that might involve the loss of lives. It based on a dictionary definition: (document A) “The Dark Ages is a term applied in its widest sense to that period of intellectual depression in the history of Europe from the establishment of the barbarian supremacy in the fifth century”. During that period, the barbarians
For something to be considered ‘dark’, something disastrous, must have happened that might involve the loss of lives. It based on a dictionary definition: (document A) “The Dark Ages is a term applied in its widest sense to that period of intellectual depression in the history of Europe from the establishment of the barbarian supremacy in the fifth century”. During that period, the barbarians