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| - | # The period of [[European]] history encompassing (roughly) [[AD]] 476–1000. | + | '''Dark Ages''' may refer to: |
| - | # [[barbarous]], [[rude]], [[unpolished]], belonging to the "[[Dark Ages]]", medieval as opposed to [[classical]]. | + | |
| - | #: "Enormities which gleam like comets through the darkness of gothic and superstitious ages." | + | |
| - | ==Modern popular use== | + | |
| - | Films and novels often use the term "Dark Age" with its implied meaning of a time of [[backwardness]]. For instance, the popular movie ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' humorously portrays knights and chivalry, following in a tradition begun with ''[[Don Quixote]]''. The 2007 television show ''The Dark Ages'' from [[The History Channel]] called the Dark Ages "600 years of [[degenerate]], [[godless]], [[inhuman]] behavior". | + | ==In history and sociology== |
| - | The public idea of the Middle Ages as a supposed "Dark Age" is also reflected in misconceptions regarding the [[History of science in the Middle Ages|study of nature during this period]]. The contemporary historians of science [[David C. Lindberg]] and [[Ronald Numbers]] discuss the widespread popular belief that the Middle Ages were a "time of ignorance and superstition", the blame for which is to be laid on the Christian Church for allegedly "placing the word of religious authorities over personal experience and rational activity", and emphasize that this view is essentially a caricature. For instance, a claim that was first propagated in the 19th century and is still very common in popular culture is the supposition that all people in the Middle Ages believed that the [[Flat Earth|Earth was flat]]. According to Lindberg and Numbers, this claim was mistaken: "There was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference". Ronald Numbers states that misconceptions such as "the Church prohibited autopsies and dissections during the Middle Ages", "the rise of Christianity killed off ancient science", and "the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of natural philosophy" are examples of widely popular myths that still pass as historical truth, although they are not supported by current historical research. | + | *[[Dark Ages (historiography)]], the concept of a supposed period of intellectual darkness that occurred in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire |
| + | ** the European [[Middle Ages]] (5th to 15th centuries AD) | ||
| + | ** the Western European [[Early Middle Ages]] (ca. 500 to 1000 AD) | ||
| + | ** the [[Migration period]] of ca. 300 to 700 AD | ||
| + | *** ''However, historians are generally uncomfortable with the term "Dark Ages" being applied to any of the above.'' <!--N.B. Please do not delete this comment or change it substantially without seeking consensus on the talk page first. Including this comment was a condition for consensus on a page move, which was argued out in a very protracted debate (now) at [[Dark Ages (historiography)]]. Removing this would involve reopening that debate - you have been warned!--> | ||
| + | *the [[Greek Dark Ages]] (ca. 1100 BC–750 BC), a period in the history of Ancient Greece and Anatolia from which no records, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive | ||
| + | * the [[Dark Ages of Cambodia]] (ca. 1450-1863) | ||
| + | * a hypothetical [[Digital Dark Age]] | ||
| + | *The ''[[saeculum obscurum]]'' or "dark age" in the history of the Papacy, running from 904-964 | ||
| - | ====Synonyms==== | + | ==In astrophysics== |
| - | * [[Early Middle Ages]] | + | |
| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | * [[Fall of Rome]] | + | |
| - | * [[Plague of Justinian]] | + | |
| - | * [[Migration Period]] | + | |
| - | * [[Middle Ages in history]] | + | |
| - | * [[Islamic Golden Age]] | + | |
| - | * [[Muslim conquests]] | + | |
| - | * [[Carolingian Renaissance]] | + | |
| - | * [[Medieval demography]] | + | |
| - | * [[Crisis of the Late Middle Ages]] | + | |
| - | * [[Great Apostasy]] | + | |
| + | * [[Timeline of the Big Bang#Dark ages|Dark Ages]], in Big Bang cosmology, a nickname for the time between Recombination (of electrons with hydrogen and helium nuclei) and Reionization | ||
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Dark Ages may refer to:
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In history and sociology
- Dark Ages (historiography), the concept of a supposed period of intellectual darkness that occurred in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire
- the European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries AD)
- the Western European Early Middle Ages (ca. 500 to 1000 AD)
- the Migration period of ca. 300 to 700 AD
- However, historians are generally uncomfortable with the term "Dark Ages" being applied to any of the above.
- the Greek Dark Ages (ca. 1100 BC–750 BC), a period in the history of Ancient Greece and Anatolia from which no records, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive
- the Dark Ages of Cambodia (ca. 1450-1863)
- a hypothetical Digital Dark Age
- The saeculum obscurum or "dark age" in the history of the Papacy, running from 904-964
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In astrophysics
- Dark Ages, in Big Bang cosmology, a nickname for the time between Recombination (of electrons with hydrogen and helium nuclei) and Reionization
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