02-28-2008, 10:02 AM
Hi Sean,
No worries. I've done the same thing (should probably do it more :oops: )
Makes perfect sense. That exact period really was 'dark' (especially for Britain) due to the chaos of the time. So, I have no qualms to the use of 'dark ages' when referring to it
Sean Manning\\n[quote] According to Warren Treadgold, Renaissances Before the Renaissance p. 11, “The measure of the disaster is that the great majority of the Latin literature that was ever lost disappeared between 550 and 750, when secular texts were left uncopied and were often even erased or discarded.â€
No worries. I've done the same thing (should probably do it more :oops: )
Quote:To be safe, say 500 to 800 CE (only 300 years, I know). The date at which books began to be lost on a large scale seems quite debatable, and you could make a case for as early as 400 CE. The Carolingian Renaissance seems to have stopped the large-scale loss of Latin books.
Makes perfect sense. That exact period really was 'dark' (especially for Britain) due to the chaos of the time. So, I have no qualms to the use of 'dark ages' when referring to it
Sean Manning\\n[quote] According to Warren Treadgold, Renaissances Before the Renaissance p. 11, “The measure of the disaster is that the great majority of the Latin literature that was ever lost disappeared between 550 and 750, when secular texts were left uncopied and were often even erased or discarded.â€
Jaime
