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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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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It's usually attributed to Petrarch, at least in concept.
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I know he described the (early) medieval period as dark, but what I'm wondering is who first used the term "dark ages" (or the equivalent in another language) as a label for a period of history.
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