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The Dark Ages here refers to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 500 to 1000 AD) in Europe. Subcategories.
The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th –10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (c. 5th –15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.
There then follows an overview of the history of medieval Europe in six chapters spanning the period 400 to 1500 AD: The transformation of the Roman Mediterranean, 400–900 – Thomas Brown; The northern world in the Dark Ages, 400–900 – Edward James; The society of Northern Europe in the High Middle Ages, 900–1200 – David Whitton
The book begins with an introduction that explains the ways in which superstitions and other mythical beliefs could have originated during the Middle Ages, before the scientific revolution. The first chapter is entitled "Ambitious Nature of Man" and briefly explains many concepts including divination , chiromancy , interpretations of dreams ...
The book's focus is the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages which caused widespread suffering in Europe in the 14th century. Drawing heavily on Froissart's Chronicles, Tuchman recounts the histories of the Hundred Years' War, the Black Plague, the Papal Schism, pillaging mercenaries, anti-Semitism, popular revolts including the Jacquerie in France, the liberation of Switzerland, the Battle of the ...
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As Italy is invaded, he also becomes involved in political and military affairs, becoming the power behind the Ostrogothic throne and defeating the Byzantines. By the end of the novel Padway has stabilized the Italo-Gothic kingdom and consolidated his reforms. Due to his actions, Europe will not experience the Dark Ages, and darkness will not fall.
Credo: An Epic Tale of the Dark Ages is a historical fiction novel written by Melvyn Bragg and published in 1996. Bragg's sixteenth novel, it is set in the Celtic Christianity of seventh-century Britain. [1] Credo was published in the United States with the title The Sword and the Miracle. [2]