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This decline persisted throughout the period of time sometimes called the Dark Ages (also called Late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages), from the fall of Rome to about the year 1000, with a brief hiatus during the flowering of the Carolingian court established by Charlemagne.
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.