05-10-2014, 10:01 PM
Greetings,
I must admit I am not sure we're not living in the Dark Ages now. Truth is out, obfuscation is in. Religion is out, fad is in. Strength is out, deference in. Ah, well, I stray.
The term "Dark Ages" simply referred to the early medieval period in which civilization essentially disintegrated. Yes, there are multiple principalities, if you will, in modern Europe. But in the early medieval period there were hundreds or more, and many of these were not more than a good size Texas county or smaller.
There are a number of excellent books on Western Christendom in the medieval period. [The concept of Europe did not arise until the late medieval period.] But a good overview of world history is: McNeill, J.R., and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2003), ISBN 0-393-05179-X, 327 pp. This book addresses world history and Europe's place in it over two millennia.
Petrus Augustinus
I must admit I am not sure we're not living in the Dark Ages now. Truth is out, obfuscation is in. Religion is out, fad is in. Strength is out, deference in. Ah, well, I stray.
The term "Dark Ages" simply referred to the early medieval period in which civilization essentially disintegrated. Yes, there are multiple principalities, if you will, in modern Europe. But in the early medieval period there were hundreds or more, and many of these were not more than a good size Texas county or smaller.
There are a number of excellent books on Western Christendom in the medieval period. [The concept of Europe did not arise until the late medieval period.] But a good overview of world history is: McNeill, J.R., and William H. McNeill, The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History (New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2003), ISBN 0-393-05179-X, 327 pp. This book addresses world history and Europe's place in it over two millennia.
Petrus Augustinus
Petrus Augustinus
