Dark ages seem to be defined as 'poor historical record'. Better than 'barbarism' but I think 'low consensus/canonicity in record' is better
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what about all those monastery copy artists? or is that not really 'historical for the concurrent times'?
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i shudder to think about it, but i suspect we'll hit one of these pretty quickly given an appropriate sun / magnetic field event
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I'm thinking less about failure of raw record keeping at media level and more messiness/noise effects
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oh i see. to some extent i think the centrality of ancien records had to do with the small number of actors involved (100s-1000s, ! millions
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