A not-especially-plausible defence of the 'Dark Ages' for your reading pleasure :)https://twitter.com/Pseudo_Isidore/status/737551724697681921 …
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
Suggests useful if *somehow* ignore pejorative connotations(!!) & use to mean ‘lost centuries’ due to difficulty of knowing what happened...
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
TBH it is LittleEnglander because it supposes that it was tougher harsher more cruel for Britain than for the rest of Europe
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Replying to @morangles
Can't disagree---clearly lots happening on continent & described similarly to Gildas + similar changes in evidence base too!
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
we did not Romans had and we gladly accept them We call it Iron Age Tene civilization but we do not call it dark dark is daft
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Very true! The term 'Dark Ages' is ridiculous+needs to be retired... but later medievalists/modernists etc esp seem to like it :/
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
btwn us 2 it is racist implying Britain inhabitants unable to keep records along Continentals plight was much ado abt nothing
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