If all you know about the "Dark Ages" came from your high school text books, then yes, "Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages IS Wrong." The book l

If all you know about the "Dark Ages" came from your high school text books, then yes, "Everything You Think You Know About the Dark Ages IS Wrong." The book looks interesting, but isn't unique in challenging these assumptions about the "Dark Ages". As a popularizer of the Middle Ages, Monty Pythoner, Terry Jones is one of many who have championed that period as a much more complex era than we were taught: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/feb/08/highereducation.news http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/feb/08/highereducat... If Abacus and the Cross looks interesting, you should also look for Terry's book Medieval Lives.