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.
However, the term Dark Ages is something usually found in just English writing. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you have historians like Edward Gibbon referring to this time as âthe darkness of the middle agesâ and portraying life during this time as full of either uncultured barbarians, evil tyrants or superstitious peasants.