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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Here's his favoured 'how awful it all was' quote from Gildas vs two other 5thC ones!pic.twitter.com/X0fk1HP1aQ
...all seems rather similar in tone to me, yet no-one would really use 'Dark Age' for continent then?
Well I rather fear that some might, actually :(
nope we use in France Barbarian Times as in not Roman civilization times
lots of other choices; age of migrations? just call centuries by their number?
I don't think more fetishization of the century can be the answer either?
Particularly as every century now seems to be 'long'... Gets confusing....! ;) :)
yes, all too long...but century or centuries as simple designation is factual
I know what you mean :) Avoids assumptions etc
if @EnglishHeritage curates material remains but trashes knowledge, a great pity
like good teaching, best to present sources and steer response 1/2
And the complete madhouse in Italy in the early 5th? Honorius has a lot of blood on his hands.
Germany Age of Migrations is spot on as covers from Rhine crossing to Hastings
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