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.
In modern times, the term Dark Ages is still used in popular culture. Petrarch's ideological campaign to paint the Middle Ages in a negative light worked so well that Dark Ages is still in popular use nearly seven hundred years later.