That's all true, but the specific term "dark age" is still a subversive term used to denigrate Christian Europe as a whole. The Italian Renaissance also owes a lot to fall of Constantinople which resulted in a lot of high culture relocating to the Italian city-states.
That's all true, but the specific term "dark age" is still a subversive term used to denigrate Christian Europe as a whole. The Italian Renaissance also owes a lot to fall of Constantinople which resulted in a lot of high culture relocating to the Italian city-states.
I guess you may 'blame' a contemporary British chronicle that began with "Days as dark as night", ironically written by probably a cleric.