Credit for the attempt - but no, the problem is with the term, not just how it's used.https://twitter.com/HistoryToday/status/730687699456303104 …
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(In fact, more I read it the more I get sense it's written by someone not familiar with period they're labelling 'Dark' :/ )
For me, the Dark Ages are an age in which the West reinvents isself, and the East shines brightly indeed.
Not so Dark at all, then.
It's so pejorative: either you mean everything collapsed (which it didn't), or we know nothing about it >
>(which isn't really true), or it was somehow morally inferior to previous ages (which is subjective & hmm)
Whenever the word "morality" is used to describe the flaws of an era, you've lost me.
Agreed. Plus, is he saying earlier centuries less violent? & should we term 5thC Africa/Gaul 'Dark Age' too?
Here's his favoured 'how awful it all was' quote from Gildas vs two other 5thC ones!pic.twitter.com/X0fk1HP1aQ
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