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Why are the dark ages called the dark ages?
The phrase "Dark Ages" is from Latin "saeculum obscurum", which was coined by Italian historian Caesar Baronius in 1602. (Baronius, Caesar. "Annales Ecclesiastici", Vol. X. Roma, 1602, p. 647.) He...
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Why were the dark ages called the dark ages?
The term "Dark Ages" has been obsolete and out of use since the 1970s. No historian ever uses that term any more. It was never used to describe the whole of the Middle Ages - that is an entirely...
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What were the dark ages and why were they called dark?
The Dark Ages were the Early Middle Ages, traditionally from 476 to 1000 or 1066. They are a time from which few writings survive, so they are assumed to be a time during which most people were...
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Why are the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages?
"Dark Ages" is from Latin "saeculum obsurum", a phrase coined by Italian historian Caesar Baronius in the 17th century. He was referring to the 10th century and used the phrase because relatively few...
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Why are the middle ages called dark ages?
The term "Dark Ages" has been obsolete and out of use since the 1970s. No historian ever uses that term any more. It was never used to describe the whole of the Middle Ages - that is an entirely...