A not-especially-plausible defence of the 'Dark Ages' for your reading pleasure :)https://twitter.com/Pseudo_Isidore/status/737551724697681921 …
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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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I think this era, Lost Centuries, has 2 diminishes,or 2 types of borders or limitations.
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