Dismisses all other names as "potentially misleading" etc, but this judgment surely applies to 'Dark Ages' far more than any other....!
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Suggests useful if *somehow* ignore pejorative connotations(!!) & use to mean ‘lost centuries’ due to difficulty of knowing what happened...
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But even if could strip of such connotations, not convinced that these are ‘lost centuries’ & so historically unrecoverable that=Dark Age...
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Ofc, I may be biased as I wrote a PhD+book arguing that not wholly 'lost'/Dark in eastern England (http://www.caitlingreen.org/p/britons-and-anglo-saxons-lincolnshire.html …), but still..! ;)
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For what it's worth, some old musings on 5-6thC history & terminology in the Lincoln region: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/01/lincolnshire-anglo-saxon-or-sub-roman.html …pic.twitter.com/LQleBWNQbL
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Just in case anyone wants to claim Britain is uniquely 'Dark'+so deserves 'Dark Age', 2 modern writers on Gaul/Italypic.twitter.com/Bioj0W2I5u
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True, except early-mid5thC arguably rather different to late 6thC etc---tyranny of centuries & so forth! ;)
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Of course, everything can be qualified. But my point was that chronological precision is almost always preferable.
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@Pseudo_Isidore In Ireland, we find this Dark Age very amusing: we had a "golden age" instead ;-)#notveryseriousThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Pseudo_Isidore a Yeatman & Sellar—'Indeed there are said to be parts of England where news of the end of the DA is unheard' - 1 more reply
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@Pseudo_Isidore Post Roman anyone?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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