Care of the woman and her family during labor and birth is. a rewarding yet demanding specialty within nursing. The. birth of a baby is more than a physical event. Birth has deep. personal and social signiï¬cance for the family, whose roles. and relationships are forever altered by this event.
The Dark Ages is a term often used synonymously with the Middle Ages. It refers to the period of time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Italian Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
The inï¬uential and comprehensive studies by Snodgrass (The Dark Age of Greece) and Desborough (The Last Mycenaeans and their Successors and The Greek Dark Ages) remain valuable for the deï¬nition of the period.his gloomy picture of Greece was further accompanied by the loss of certain skills in architecture and art and most importantly by the loss of writing (Snodgrass, Dark Age of Greece, p. 2; Desborough, Greek Dark Ages, pp. 15â18).