the term dark ages was first used in ca. sa 1693.
the term dark ages was first used in ca. sa 1693.
when was the term dark ages first used?
ca. sa 1693
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most modern historians do not use the term "dark ages", preferring terms such as early middle ages. but when used by some historians today, the term "dark ages" is meant to describe the economic, political, and cultural problems of the era. for others, the term dark ages is intended to be neutral, expressing the idea that the events of the period seem 'dark' to us because of the paucity of the historical record. the term is used in this sense (often in the singular) to reference the bronze age collapse and the subsequent greek dark ages, the dark ages of cambodia (c. 1450-1863), and also a hypothetical digital dark age which would ensue if the electronic documents produced in the current period were to become unreadable at some point in the future. some byzantinists have used the term "byzantine dark ages" to refer to the period from the earliest muslim conquests to about 800, because there are no extant historical texts in greek from this period, and thus the history of the byzantine empire and its territories that were conquered by the muslims is poorly understood and must be reconstructed from other contemporaneous sources, such as religious texts. the term "dark age" is not restricted to the discipline of history. since the archaeological evidence for some periods is abundant and for others scanty, there are also archaeological dark ages.
dark ages (historiography)