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There was no "Dark Ages": the term described gaps in the surviving sources, and its popular use is not a live scholarly position but a settled error.
Drawn from what Eleanor Janega said
SubjectEurope
What Eleanor Janega actually said
- Eleanor Janega Medieval historian and author
Further, the fact that there is no such thing as a ‘Dark Ages’ and that a term we used for source survival has escaped containment and been rendered meaningless by a bunch of poorly read self-congratulatory dolts is, in fact, what we call ‘settled academic fact’.
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↗On contrarian historygoing-medieval.com
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