I mean, Mediterranean pottery in Britain "could be as much due to the work of pirates as long-distance traders." Huh?! No.
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore
(In fact, more I read it the more I get sense it's written by someone not familiar with period they're labelling 'Dark' :/ )
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore
For me, the Dark Ages are an age in which the West reinvents isself, and the East shines brightly indeed.
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Not so Dark at all, then.
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Replying to @MariusHollenga @Pseudo_Isidore
It's so pejorative: either you mean everything collapsed (which it didn't), or we know nothing about it >
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>(which isn't really true), or it was somehow morally inferior to previous ages (which is subjective & hmm)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Pseudo_Isidore
Whenever the word "morality" is used to describe the flaws of an era, you've lost me.
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Replying to @MariusHollenga @Pseudo_Isidore
Agreed. Plus, is he saying earlier centuries less violent? & should we term 5thC Africa/Gaul 'Dark Age' too?
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nope we use in France Barbarian Times as in not Roman civilization times
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Replying to @morangles @caitlinrgreen and
lots of other choices; age of migrations? just call centuries by their number?
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Interestingly, more evidence for migration from isotopes pre-'Migration era' ;)
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