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
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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
Just curious... what's the building with an apse?
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It's a late 5th-6th century British church in centre of the Roman forum at Lincoln :)
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