Here's why it’s time to shed some light on history’s 'Dark Ages'
across Europe, Asia, and North Africa. We find marketplaces where Jews spoke Latin, Christians spoke Greek, and everyone spoke Arabic. showing spices being loaded onto cargo ships for transportation., no “middle age,” no “medieval.” So we could instead draw the medieval to a close just a bit later in the fourteenth century asravaged Asia, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
What is clear is that people in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy, frustrated with the political chaos and warfare of their ugly era, decided to draw nostalgic links to the worlds of ancient Rome and Greece, using the distant past to sever their connection to the previous thousand years of history.
We are both historians of medieval Europe, having spent years with primary sources producing our own research. But we’ve also, been blessed by the work of hundreds of scholars who have shaken loose the old stories of the Dark Ages to reveal a much more complicated, much more interesting picture of the period.
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