> The European "dark ages" were named that by people who claimed to be "the enlightenment." No, the "dark ages" terminology is from the renaissance. Petrarch i

> The European "dark ages" were named that by people who claimed to be "the enlightenment." No, the "dark ages" terminology is from the renaissance. Petrarch is named as the possible origin. They considered classical antiquity the height of civilization and the age after the fall of Rome the dark ages.