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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Replying to @vgr
what about all those monastery copy artists? or is that not really 'historical for the concurrent times'?
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Replying to @niftynei
No comparison to Roman record keeping. It's like comparing a sample of tweets to a much larger sample of the whole internet
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Replying to @vgr
by 'Roman' are you referring to some level of state/government records?
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Replying to @niftynei
All sorts... from Tacitus to inherited Greek stuff to stuff saved by Arabs. They just seem to have been big on documentation
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