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No just no, you don't use that term if your a knowledgeable middle-age historian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.wikipedia
by nix23 4y ago
No just no, you don't use that term if your a knowledgeable middle-age historian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
- yamtaddle 4y agoYes just yes. Since that supports exactly what I wrote.
- nix23 4y ago>>and today's scholars also reject its usage for the period. >>The majority of modern scholars avoid the term altogether due to its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate. That's NOT what you wrote....
- yamtaddle 4y agoTo quote myself: > in limited use Which is supported by the article you cited. My only point was that its presence wasn't necessarily reason to decide the author doesn't know what they're talking about. I also think the "poetic" sense of it, in context, is wholly enough to defend its usage here against such out-of-hand dismissal of the author over it. Since I did provide two reasons someone who's not unqualified to write on this topic might choose to use it. In general I find that fans of fields tend to be more pedantic about this kind of thing than practitioners, sometimes to the point of being wrong from the perspective of those in the field (see: "the US isn't a democracy, it's a republic!")