Please don't refer to the early Middle Ages (or any part of the Middle Ages) as "The Dark Ages." The ten centuries from the Fall of Rome to Gutenberg (my preferred bookends) weren't all unicorns & rainbows, but they weren't all "dark" either. They were full of humans being human.
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That may be how some interpret the term, but it's not the way the term was originally conceived and is still mostly, used. And there are more sources available to historians than you might think, including forensic, artistic, legal, and literary.
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Renaissance humanists trying to justify ignoring the previous thousand years in favor of a restoration of what they thought of as the more secular and intellectual antique period. They also came up with the term "Middle Ages" for the same reason.
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"Another reason why the Middle Ages are often called the Dark Ages is because, compared with other eras, historians don't know as much about this time. In some ways, this period of time has been lost to history." https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-dark-ages-definition-history-timeline.html …
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